Cover -- The Nobel Prize Winning Discoveries in Infectious Diseases -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes -- Part A: Immunity -- 1 Serotherapy -- EMIL VON BEHRING -- DIPHTHERIA -- The 1925 diphtheria run -- TETANUS -- SUMMARY -- 2 Antimicrobial defenses -- JULES BORDET -- ANTIMICROBIAL DEFENSES -- Antibody -- Complement -- PERTUSSIS -- SUMMARY -- 3 MHC restriction -- PETER DOHERTY AND ROLF ZINKERNAGEL -- THE MAJOR HISTOCOMPATABILITY COMPLEX SYSTEM -- SUMMARY -- Part B: Antimicrobials -- 4 Prontosil and the sulfonamides -- GERHARD DOMAGK -- PRONTOSIL -- THE SULFAS -- SUMMARY -- 5 Penicillin -- ALEXANDER FLEMING, ERNEST CHAIN AND HOWARD FLOREY -- PENICILLIN -- Resistance -- 6 Streptomycin -- SELMAN WAKSMAN -- STREPTOMYCIN -- SUMMARY -- 7 Chemotherapeutic agents -- GEORGE HITCHINGS, GERTRUDE ELION AND JAMES BLACK -- CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS -- Pyrimethamine -- Trimethoprim -- Acyclovir -- Part C: Bacteria -- 8 Tuberculosis -- ROBERT KOCH -- THE HISTORY OF TUBERCULOSIS -- KOCH'S CONTRIBUTIONS -- SPREAD OF TUBERCULOSIS -- SYMPTOMS -- TREATMENT -- VACCINATION -- OTHER MYCOBACTERIA -- 9 Typhus -- CHARLES NICOLLE -- HISTORY OF TYPHUS -- EPIDEMIC TYPHUS -- ENDEMIC TYPHUS -- 10 Syphilis therapy -- JULIUS WAGNER-JAUREGG -- MALARIOTHERAPY -- Action -- HISTORY OF SYPHILIS -- CLINICAL SYPHILIS -- TREATMENT -- Part D: Viruses -- 11 Tobacco mosaic virus -- WENDELL STANLEY -- THE TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS -- OTHER PLANT-INFECTING VIRUSES -- STANLEY'S ACCOMPLISHMENT -- 12 Yellow fever -- MAX THEILER -- YELLOW FEVER -- History -- TREATMENT AND CONTROL -- 13 Poliomyelitis virus -- JOHN ENDERS, THOMAS WELLER AND FREDERICK ROBBINS -- POLIOMYELITIS -- Symptoms and spread -- Management -- Vaccination -- 14 Hepatitis B virus -- BARUCH BLUMBERG -- HEPATITIS -- Hepatitis B -- Hepatitis A -- Hepatitis C.

Other forms of hepatitis -- 15 Bacteriophage -- ALFRED HERSHEY -- BACTERIOPHAGE -- HERSHEY'S CONTRIBUTION -- 16 Bacteriophage lysogeny -- ANDRÉ LWOFF -- BACTERIOPHAGE INFECTION -- 17 Rous sarcoma virus -- PEYTON ROUS -- FOWL SARCOMA -- 18 Polyoma virus -- RENATO DULBECCO -- POLYOMA VIRUSES -- 19 Reverse transcriptase -- HOWARD MARTIN TEMIN AND DAVID BALTIMORE -- REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION -- 20 Viral oncogenes -- MICHAEL BISHOP AND HAROLD VARMUS -- VIRAL ONCOGENES -- 21 Kuru -- CARLETON GAJDUSEK -- KURU -- KURU-LIKE DISEASES IN ANIMALS -- Scrapie -- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- Chronic wasting disease of elk and deer -- KURU-LIKE DISEASES IN MAN -- SUMMARY -- 22 Prions -- STANLEY PRUSINER -- PRIONS -- Part E: Parasites -- 23 Malaria -- RONALD ROSS AND CHARLES LAVERAN -- MALARIA -- Control and treatment -- 24 Cancer parasite -- JOHANNES FIBIGER -- FIBIGER'S RESEARCH -- THE RELATION BETWEEN INFECTION AND CANCER -- 25 DDT -- PAUL MÜLLER -- DDT -- PROBLEMS WITH DDT -- Counterpoint: HIV/AIDS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE WORLDWIDE PANDEMIC -- ORIGIN OF THE HIV VIRUS -- PREVENTION AND TREATMENT -- A NOBEL PRIZE? -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.