Reproduces in facsimile 54 seminal articles, arranged chronologically within sections on diagnostic microbiology and epidemiology, pathogenesis and host response mechanisms, general and applied microbiology, physiology, and virology. For each section, the committee members who made the selection set out the rationale for their choices. Each article is preceded with a brief biographical and career sketch. As with most backward- looking, pre-postmodernist accounts, the collection totally suppresses the voices of the microbes themselves. There is no subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)