A short voyage into the past: former misconceptions and misinterpretations in the etiology of some viral diseases

The advancement of human knowledge has historically followed the pattern of one-step growth (the same pattern followed by microorganisms in laboratory culture conditions). In this way, each new important discovery opened the door to multiple secondary breakthroughs, eventually reaching a “plateau” w...

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Published in:Applied microbiology and biotechnology 2018-09, Vol.102 (17), p.7257-7263
Main Authors: Villa, T.G., Feijoo-Siota, L., Sánchez-Pérez, A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Bacteria
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biotechnology
Censorship
Epidemics
Etiology
Experimentation
Fever
History, 18th Century
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Humans
Immunization
Influenza
Laboratory culture
Life Sciences
Microbial Genetics and Genomics
Microbiology
Microorganisms
Mini-Review
Pandemics
Rabies
Tetanus
Tropical diseases
Vaccines
Viral diseases
Virology - history
Virus Diseases - etiology
Virus Diseases - history
Viruses
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Summary:The advancement of human knowledge has historically followed the pattern of one-step growth (the same pattern followed by microorganisms in laboratory culture conditions). In this way, each new important discovery opened the door to multiple secondary breakthroughs, eventually reaching a “plateau” when new findings emerged. Microbiology research has usually followed this pattern, but often the conclusions attained from experimentation/observation were either equivocal or altogether false, causing important delays in the advancement of this science. This mini-review deals with some of these documented scientific errors, but the aim is not to include every mistake, but to select those that are paramount to the advance of Microbiology.
ISSN:0175-7598
1432-0614
DOI:10.1007/s00253-018-9169-0