Viruses vs. superbugs
Subtitle: a solution to the antibiotics crisis?
By: Thomas Häusler ; translated by Karen Leube.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781403987648
Subjects: Bacterial diseases -- Treatment; Bacterial diseases -- Alternative treatment; Bacteriophages -- Therapeutic use
Work titles: Gesund durch viren.
Description: Cites a growing number of deaths associated with bacteria that have grown immune to antibiotics and discusses how certain bacteria-killing viruses that were discovered in 1915 are being used successfully throughout Eastern Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-292) and index.

Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: At the limits of medicine; title: Invincible microbes; title: The wild pioneer era; title: The renaissance of phages during the war; title: A parallel universe; title: Keepers of the grail in peril; title: Resurrection; title: What's the future of phage therapy?; title: Append. 1. A short list of bacteria; title: Append. 2. The advantages and disadvantages of phage therapy.