Superbug : the fatal menace of MRSA / Maryn McKenna.

  • McKenna, Maryn.
Date:
2010
  • Books

About this work

Description

McKenna reveals the hidden history of MRSA's relentless advance-- how it has overwhelmed hospitals, assaulted families, and infiltrated agriculture and live-stock, moving inexorably into the food chain.

Publication/Creation

New York ; London : Free Press, 2010.

Physical description

xiii, 271 pages ; 24 cm

Contributors

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-254) and index.

Contents

The first alert -- The cloud babies -- The silent attack -- The puzzle pieces -- The biggest thing since AIDS -- The flood rising -- Gone without warning -- The foe on the field -- Prison, the perfect incubator -- Into the food chain -- Soap, the wonder cure -- The end of antibiotics -- The epidemics converging.

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  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WC250 2010M47s
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781416557272
  • 141655727X
  • 9781416557289
  • 1416557288