Each year thousands of people die from bacteria resistant to antibiotics. Alternative drugs are urgently needed. A surprising ray of hope from the past are viruses that kill bacteria, but not us. Award-winning science journalist Thomas Häusler investigates how these long-forgotten cures may help sick people today.
Autorentext
THOMAS HÄUSLER is Chief Science Editor of the Swiss news magazine, Facts. He has won several awards for his journalistic work, including one for an article about phage therapy in the world-renowned German weekly Die Zeit.
Inhalt
Preface Foreword At the Limits of Medicine Invincible Microbes The Pioneer Era The Renaissance A Parallel Universe Keepers of the Grail in Peril Resurrection What's the Future? Appendix Notes and References Index
Titel
Viruses Vs. Superbugs
Untertitel
A Solution to the Antibiotics Crisis?
Autor
EAN
9780230552289
ISBN
978-0-230-55228-9
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
24.05.2016
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
22.31 MB
Anzahl Seiten
298
Jahr
2016
Untertitel
Englisch
Auflage
2nd ed. 2006
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