Microbe Hunters

The popular book “Hunters for Microbes” is included in the curriculum for training medical university students. It is an engaging account of the history of great scientific discoveries in microbiology and of researchers who, at different times and in different countries, took on the fight against disease-causing microbes: Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, I. I. Mechnikov, and many others.

This book is about brave and noble people—seekers of truth and dreamers. It is full of gripping adventures and humor. Well known to more than one generation of readers, it has attracted many young minds and hearts to microbiological science.