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9780230551930

Viruses vs. Superbugs A Solution to the Antibiotics Crisis?

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230551930

  • ISBN10:

    0230551939

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-12-26
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This is the gripping tale of the discovery, eclipse and rediscovery of a therapy that is offering new hope in the fight against drug-resistant bacteria. Phages - viruses that kill bacteria but not us - were found in the early 1900s but forgotten as an antibacterial drug in the 1940s when antibiotics took off in the West. After thriving only in the Eastern bloc, phages are now experiencing an exciting renaissance as the world races to find cures for infections such as MRSA. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Thomas Häusler is chief science editor of the Swiss news magazine Facts and has won several awards for his journalistic work. He lives in Switzerland.

Table of Contents

List of figuresp. vi
Forewordp. viii
Prefacep. xi
At the limits of medicinep. 1
Invincible microbesp. 15
The wild pioneer erap. 48
The renaissance of phages during the warp. 105
A parallel universep. 126
Keepers of the grail in perilp. 175
Resurrectionp. 203
What's the future of phage therapy?p. 248
A short list of bacteriap. 252
The advantages and disadvantages of phage therapyp. 257
Notesp. 261
Figure sourcesp. 283
Indexp. 284
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