Rising plague
Subtitle: the global threat from deadly bacteria and our dwindling arsenal to fight them
By: by Brad Spellberg.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781591027508
Subjects: Drug resistance in microorganisms
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hard lessons learned from Mrs. C; title: Infections, antibiotics, and antibiotic resistance; title: Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus: deadly antibiotic resistant bacteria escape the hospital; title: Beyond MRSA: infections resistant to virtually all antibiotics; title: Lack of antibiotic development; title: The war against microbes?; title: Forget pharmaceutical companies, the government can create new antibiotics. Not!; title: "Toxic pharmaceutical politics" and finger pointing; title: So what will work?; title: What can you do to help?; title: Consequences and conclusions.