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The secret life of germs : observations and lessons from a microbe hunter / Philip M. Tierno, Jr.
Author
Tierno, Philip M.
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English
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New York : Pocket Books, 2001.
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xiv, 290 pages ; 25 cm
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QR56 .T54 2001
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"They're everywhere. Silent and invisible to the naked eye, they're on everything we touch, eat, breathe - on every single inch of our skin. And despite the remarkable advances of science, germs are challenging medicine in ways that were unimaginable just a decade ago. Due to an explosion of infections never before reported in modern history and a new germ horror story surfacing every year, it's no small wonder that the world is up in arms - and that antibacterial soaps are a billion-dollar business.
Now, renowned microbiologist Philip Tierno cuts through the media hype with the compulsively readable Secret Life of Germs, revealing exactly where the greatest threats may be hiding.".
"The Secret Life of Germs provides an inside view of this fascinating and elegantly ordered microscopic world - from the common cold, E. coli, and Lyme disease to encephalitis, mad cow disease, and flesh-eating bacteria. It takes readers on a historical survey of the culprits of disease and explores the effect that they - and the scientists who study them - have had on our world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
1. Seeds of Disease, Seeds of Life
2. How We Make Each Other Sick
3. The Germ Domain
4. The Germ Factory
5. The Enemy Within
6. Person to Person
7. Common Ground
8. In Thin Air
9. On the Wing and on Eight Little Legs
10. Not the Usual Suspects
11. The Germ Revolt
12. Germ Warfare and Terrorism
13. Germs for Life.
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ISBN
0743421876
LCCN
2001036937
OCLC
47706150
RCP
C - O
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