| Edition |
First Free Press hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 271 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
| Summary |
Via several real-life firsthand accounts, public-health journalist McKenna lays bare, often all too graphically, the ravages of a disease with the potential to do grievous international harm because there is virtually no known treatment for it...There is a particularly feisty, methicillin-resistant strain, staphylococcus aureus, aka MRSA, that apparently has plans to outlast and outlive by outsmarting just about every known antibiotic thrown at it. First thought to reside solely within the walls of hospitals and to affect those with severely compromised immune systems, MRSA surreptitiously evolved a street persona. With the bacteria's quick-changing, deadly brothers lurking in hospitals, gyms, and locker rooms, experts at the epicenter of research report that the hunt for a vaccine may be a last-ditch strategy to fend off a wily predator--Booklist. |
| Subject |
Staphylococcus aureus infections.
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Methicillin resistance.
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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- United States.
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Health Policy -- United States.
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History, 20th Century -- United States.
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History, 21st Century -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9781416557272 alkaline paper |
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141655727X alkaline paper |
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9781416557289 alkaline paper |
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1416557288 alkaline paper |
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9781439171837 |
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1439171831 |
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