Stalking Microbes: A Relentless Pursuit of Infection Control - Couverture souple

Wenzel, Richard

 
9781420820065: Stalking Microbes: A Relentless Pursuit of Infection Control
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ISBN 10 : 1420820060 ISBN 13 : 9781420820065
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2005

Synopsis

Nothing so quickly threatens health than an infection, the interaction of a person with a microbe that favors the invading pathogen. Within hours the invisible predators can overwhelm the human host and cause devastating illness and death. The riveting stories of infections in sick people and sick populations are lucidly told by an expert clinician and epidemiologist, Richard Wenzel. His essays describe the personalities and histories of the microbes themselves, struggling to stay alive in the host. He vividly outlines the reactions of those infected and the efforts of Medicine to prevent and treat life-threatening illnesses. Stalking Microbes is an account of a physician who listens to patients in order to make the right diagnosis and who listens to the organisms to understand the causes of epidemics. Along the way he teaches the reader about caring, about curiosity, about independent thinking, the strengths and shortcomings of current Medical practice, and about life itself.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Nothing so quickly threatens health than an infection, the interaction of a person with a microbe that favors the invading pathogen. Within hours the invisible predators can overwhelm the human host and cause devastating illness and death. The riveting stories of infections in sick people and sick populations are lucidly told by an expert clinician and epidemiologist, Richard Wenzel. His essays describe the personalities and histories of the microbes themselves, struggling to stay alive in the host. He vividly outlines the reactions of those infected and the efforts of Medicine to prevent and treat life-threatening illnesses. Stalking Microbes is an account of a physician who listens to patients in order to make the right diagnosis and who listens to the organisms to understand the causes of epidemics. Along the way he teaches the reader about caring, about curiosity, about independent thinking, the strengths and shortcomings of current Medical practice, and about life itself.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Richard P. Wenzel is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is recognized by many as one of the leading infectious diseases epidemiologists in the United States.Dr. Wenzel was named one of ten contemporary "Great Teachers" by the National Institutes of Health in their 2001-2 series. He is a prolific author of over 450 publications and editor of six textbooks on Infection Control and Quality Health Care. He has won numerous awards for research and in 2001 was named Editor-at-Large for The New England Journal of Medicine. He is President-Elect of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.He and his wife JoGail live in Richmond.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1420820060
ISBN 13 
9781420820065
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Nombre de pages
152
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