Superbug : the fatal menace of MRSA / Maryn McKenna.
- McKenna, Maryn.
- Date:
- 2010
- Books
About this work
Description
McKenna reveals the hidden history of MRSA's relentless advance-- how it has overwhelmed hospitals, assaulted families, and infiltrated agriculture and live-stock, moving inexorably into the food chain.
Publication/Creation
New York ; London : Free Press, 2010.
Physical description
xiii, 271 pages ; 24 cm
Contributors
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-254) and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionWC250 2010M47sOpen shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9781416557272
- 141655727X
- 9781416557289
- 1416557288