Cazadores de microbios

A more pertinent story than ever about microbes, bacteria and how disease affects our daily lives and the prosperity of our societies. The superheroes in this scheme are the scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians, who discovered the microbes and invented the vaccines to counter them. De Kruif reveals the now seemingly simple but really fundamental discoveries of science. A fascinating book that describes the life and work of a group of men from past centuries who laid the foundations to know and understand the world of the smallest living beings on Earth and our relationship with them. The work begins with the life of Anton van Leeuwenhoek, who reported the first sighting under the microscope of unknown beings, opening the doors of the microbial world to human beings. It is also about Louis Pasteur, who demonstrated the dramatic closeness of the contacts between these beings and us: through his studies on the role of microorganisms in the production of beer and wine, he made clear the existence of that hitherto unknown world, that although it does not watch over us in the strict sense of the term, it does play a fundamental role in our lives.