| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page [239-273]) and index. |
| Contents |
The war on germs -- Life on man -- Too clean? -- Bugs on drugs -- Fighting smarter, not harder -- Beyond lethal force: defang, deflect, and deploy -- Fixing the patient -- Coda: embracing the microbiome. |
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Seven key terms and conventions -- Prologue : A good war gone bad -- Ricky's story -- Daniel's story -- Revenge of the microbes? -- pt. 1. The war on germs -- From miasmas to microbes -- Germ theory reborn -- The sanitarians -- The search for magic bullets -- pt. 2. Life on man -- The body as ecosystem -- Into the mouths of babes -- Life on the surface -- Life on the inside -- Bugs in space -- Where no biologist has gone before -- The inner tube of life -- Who's the boss? -- A new window opens -- Stealth infections or innocent bystanders? -- pt. 3. Too clean? -- Hair trigger -- From Hippocrates to the hygiene hypothesis -- A history of self-destruction -- Children in the cowshed -- Teaching tolerance -- Innate immunity -- The dirt vaccine -- Old friends -- Beyond immunity -- pt. 4. Bugs on drugs -- A killer in the nursery -- An end to bacterial disease? -- Microscopic mating games -- The bacterial superorganism -- Danger ignored -- Old habits, new insights -- Out of the hospital and into our daily lives -- The reservoir withing -- Resistance by the shovel -- Down on the farm -- The antibiotic paradox -- |
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pt. 5. Fighting smarter not harder -- The good old days? -- Preserving antibiotics a: less is more -- Homing in on the enemy -- Drugs with on -off switches -- Silencing resistance -- Farming out resistance -- Beyond antibiotics : new ways to kill -- Cocoons and frog slime -- pt. 6. Beyond lethal force -- Drugs that disarm -- Vaccines - forewarned is forearmed -- Domesticate and deploy -- Prescription probiotics -- Fighting fire with fire -- A superhero for the mouth -- Transgenic probiotics -- Probiotics for livestock -- A second neolithic revolution -- pt. 7. Fixing the patient -- The dragon within -- Enhancing the bionic human -- From sepsis to chronic inflammation -- Immunobug immunodrugs -- Tweaking the bug -- Into the future -- Coda : Embracing the microbiome. |
| Subject |
Microbiology.
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Medical microbiology.
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Bacteriology.
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Communicable diseases.
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Bacteria.
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Anti-Bacterial Agents.
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Drug resistance in microorganisms.
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Immunity, Innate.
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Microbial viability counts.
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Microbiology -- trends.
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| ISBN |
9780809050635 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0809050633 hardcover alkaline paper |
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