Title Help! What's eating my flesh? : runaway staph and strep infections! / Thomasine E. Lewis Tilden.

Publication Info.	New York, NY : Franklin Watts, [2008]
	©2008

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department	J616.9 TILDEN	Check Shelf
South Windsor Public Library - Children's Department	J616.9 T45H	Check Shelf

Description	64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm.
Series	24/7, science behind the scenes
	Medical files
	24/7, science behind the scenes.
Note	"True-life cases!"--Cover.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical and internet references (pages 57-58) and index.
Summary	Bacteria are the most common living things on earth and you carry them wherever you go. Most of them couldn't hurt a flea, but if conditions are just right, they can cause big problems!
Contents	Overheard in the hospital: spreading germs -- See for yourself: a rash of problems -- Who's who: the medical team -- The terrible case of the flesh-eating disease -- No time to lose -- Help! I can't breathe? -- Flashback: key dates in the history of infection -- Ripped from the headlines: in the news -- Real stuff: the war on germs -- Careers: help wanted: infectious disease specialist.
Subject	Staphylococcal infections -- Juvenile literature.
	Necrotizing fasciitis -- Juvenile literature.
	Streptococcal infections -- Juvenile literature.
	Staphylococcal infections.
	Necrotizing fasciitis.
	Streptococcal infections.
	Necrotizing fasciitis. (OCoLC)fst01035391
	Staphylococcal infections. (OCoLC)fst01131541
	Streptococcal infections. (OCoLC)fst01134864
	Staphylococcal infections.
Genre/Form	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Added Title	Help! What is eating my flesh?
ISBN	0531187381
	9780531187388
	0531120732 (alk. paper)
	9780531120736 (alk. paper)

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