The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria - Couverture souple

Shnayerson, Michael; Plotkin, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 075153949X ISBN 13 : 9780751539493

Editeur : Sphere, 2006

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In June 1999, a 33-year-old woman walked into a San Francisco hospital complaining of acute pain in her legs. The day before, she had what she thought was a flu: fever, dizziness and abdominal pain. Within two hours of her admission to hospital, she was dead, and unrecognisable. The diagnosis: flesh-eating bacteria.

Bacteria are one of the most basic life forms on earth, yet they pose a threat to mankind that not even the most sophisticated scientific techniques can contain. The book charts the competition between the drug companies to develop a new super-antibiotic, and the race to save lives and make millions. It also describes the surprising return of a technique that predates penicillin - the development of a phage or virus that kills the bacteria from within.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A battle is taking place on the frontiers of medicine between rapidly evolving bacteria and the doctors struggling to outwit them. "The Killers Within" tells this horror story that just happens to be true.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sphere
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 075153949X
• ISBN 13: 9780751539493
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336