num_pages: 160
description: This is the story of a killer that has been striking people down for thousands of years: tuberculosis. After centuries of ineffective treatments the microorganism that causes TB was identified and the cure was thought to be within reachbut drug-resistant varieties continue to plague and panic the human race.The biography of this deadly germ an account of the diagnosis treatment and cure of the disease over timeand the social history of an illness that could strike anywhere but was most prevalent among the poor are woven together in an engrossing carefully researched narrative. Bibliography source notes index.
language: English
title: Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt