Rising plague : the global threat from deadly bacteria and our dwindling arsenal to fight them /
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Amherst, N.Y. :
Prometheus Books,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Hard lessons learned from Mrs. C.
- Infections, antibiotics, and antibiotic resistance
- Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus : deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria escape the hospital
- Beyond MRSA : infections resistant to virtually all antibiotics
- Lack of antibiotic development
- The war against microbes?
- Forget pharmaceutical companies, the government can create new antibiotics--not!
- "Toxic pharmaceutical politics" and finger pointing
- So what will work?
- What can you do to help?
- Consequences and conclusions.