Fighting Infection in the 21st Century
Contributors: Eileen Barry (Contributor); Jamie Bartram (Contributor); Stig Bengmark (Contributor); P. W. Andrew (Editor); G. L. Smith (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: November 1, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780632058174
First sentence: Emerging infectious diseases remain a continuing threat to the health of people worldwide, despite the development of some complacency around the middle of the 20th century, when it was widely believed that infectious diseases could be conquered by the application of antibiotics combined with prophylactic immunization.