Interferon
/by Wong Chart Hoong
- 95 pages ; 30cm.
Seameo-Tropmed Institute for Medical Research. Diploma in Medical Microbiology. October, 1980 - March, 1981
The interferon story is a dynamic, active and changing story. Interferon was discovered in 1957 by virologists Alick Isaac and Jean Lindermann, during studies of a biological phenomena known as "viral interference'. It was so called because it was observed that a victim of one kind of virus-caused illness, practically never came down with another viral disease at the same time.