Antibiotics
By: by Christine Zuchora-Walske ; content consultant, Erika Ernst, Associate Professor, University of Iowa College of Pharmacy
Series: Medical marvels
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781617839016
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Antibiotics; Juvenile literature
Description: Amazing medical breakthroughs are made every day. In the past decades, medical researchers have cured diseases that were once deadly and devised new methods to heal that were once unimaginable. This title follows the development of antibiotics, including premodern forerunners to antibiotics, groundbreaking discoveries and the doctors who made them, and where the science is heading in the future. Learn how antibiotics work and why scientists need to continually discover new drugs. Sidebars, full-color photos, a glossary, and well-placed graphs, charts, and maps, enhance this engaging title--publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 104) and index.
Table of contents: title: Back from the brink; title: Early antimicrobials; title: Penicillin; title: Antibiotic explosion; title: Antibacterial antibiotics; title: Antifungal antibiotics; title: The problem of antibiotic resistance; title: The future of antibiotics.