Growing Pathogens in Tissue Cultures: Fifty Years in Academic Tropical Medicine, Pediatrics, and Virology

At the middle of the 20th century, Weller demonstrated how to grow poliovirus in large amounts in both human and monkey tissue, then led the research that established the value of tissue culture in the field of virology. Here he recounts his career, from the early years through isolating viruses to tropical public health. Science History Publications is a division of Watson Publishing. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR