General Index WORLD OF MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
cryptosporidium and cryptosporidiosis, 1:143
dysentery, 1:168–170
Giardiaand giardiasis, 1:248–249, 2:367
indicator species, 1:308
laboratory techniques, 1:335
Stentor,2:531
wastewater treatment, 2:590–591
See alsoWater pollution and purification
Waterfleas, 2:616
Watson, James D., 1:114, 1:138, 1:139,1:162, 1:163, 1:269, 2:594–595,
2:595,2:655, 2:659
Weigert, Carl, 1:253
Weismann, August F., 2:649, 2:650
Weissmann, Charles, 2:465
Welch, William Henry, 2:595–596
Weller, Thomas, 1:185, 1:186, 2:424, 2:596–597,2:654
Wells, William Charles, 2:646
West Nile virus, 2:597–598
Western blots, 1:183
“White smokers,” 1:282
Whiteheads, 1:2
Whittaker, Robert, 2:458
WHO. SeeWorld Health Organization
Whole genome shotgun cloning, 2:515
Whooping cough. SeePertussis
Widal, Georges Fernand Isidor, 1:255
Wiener, Alexander, 1:340
Wilcox, Kent, 2:657
Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick, 1:162, 2:598–599,2:656
Willadsen, Steen A., 2:658
William of Saliceto, 2:644
Williams, Robley C., 2:655
Wilmut, Ian, 2:660
Wine making, 1:217–218, 2:424–425, 2:599–601
Winogradsky column, 2:601
Winogradsky, Sergei, 1:167
Wittgenstein, Annelise, 1:330
Woese, Carl R., 2:450, 2:658
Wöhler, Friedrich, 1:66, 2:646
Wolff, Kaspar Friedrich, 2:645
Wollman, Élie, 1:317–318, 2:656
Wong-Staal, Flossie, 2:601,2:601–602
Woodward, Robert B., 2:602–603
World Health Organization (WHO), 1:275, 2:522, 2:603–604,2:654,
2:656
Wright, Almroth Edward, 1:218, 2:435, 2:604
X
X-linked agammaglobulinemia, 1:293, 1:301
X-ray fluorescence, 2:525
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, 2:525
Xanthophylls, 2:488, 2:605
Xanthophyta, 2:605–606
Xanthoria,1:349
Xenorhabdus luminescens,1:354
Xenorhabdus nematophilus,2:383
Y
YAC. SeeYeast artificial chromosome
Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman, 2:607–609
Yanofsky, Charles, 2:657
Yeast, 1:231, 2:609,2:609–610
aerobes, 1:5
asexual generation and reproduction, 1:35
cell cycle of, 2:611
colony and colony formation, 1:129–130
cryoprotection, 1:141–142
cryptococci and cryptococcosis, 1:142–143
fermentation, 1:217–218
hyphae, 1:284
life cycle of, 2:609
protoplasts and spheroplasts, 2:462
types of, 2:599
wine making, 2:599
See alsoYeast, economic uses and benefits; Yeast, infectious;
Yeast artificial chromosome; Yeast genetics
Yeast, economic uses and benefits, 1:217–218, 2:611–612
Yeast, infectious, 2:612,2:612–613
eye infections, 1:213
Lichen planus, 1:348
skin infections, 2:516–517
thrush, 2:547
transmission of pathogens, 2:553
See alsoMold
Yeast artificial chromosome (YAC), 2:515, 2:610–611,2:659
Yeast genetics
Saccharomyces cerevisiae,2:501
shotgun cloning, 2:515
yeast artificial chromosome (YAC), 2:610–611
See alsoMold
Yellow fever, 1:263, 2:423, 2:613–614
history of, 2:545
infection control, 1:310
treatment of, 2:614
vaccine, 2:545, 2:614
Yellow fever virus, 1:57–58, 2:613
Yellow-green algae, 2:605–606
Yersin, Alexander, 1:93, 1:272, 1:287, 1:353, 2:496, 2:650
Yersinia,1:188
Yersinia enterocolotica,1:188
Yersinia pestis,1:93, 1:188, 1:195, 2:644
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis,1:188
Yogurt, 1:337
Young, John, 2:370
Yuan, Robert, 2:375
Z
Zaug, Arthur, 1:102
Zeiss, Carl, 1:1
Zeiss Works, 1:1
Zidovudine, 1:8
Ziehl-Neelsen stain, 1:335
Zimmer, Esther, 1:342,1:343
Zinc fingers, 1:9
Zinder, Norton, 1:55, 1:342, 2:654, 2:655
Zinsser, Hans, 1:337
ZoBell, Claude Ephraim, 2:431, 2:615
Zoo FISH, 1:222
Zoomastigina, 2:459
Zoonoses, 2:615–616,2: 616
arenaviruses, 1:35
bubonic plague, 1:93, 1:94,1:95, 1:188, 1:193–194, 1:195, 1:274
campylobacteriosis, 1:99–100
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