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Series
Frontiers in Antimicrobial Agents volume Volume 1
Publisher
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This is a look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading expert. Tracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, it takes readers to the forefront of trail-blazing research while revealing the damage that overuse of antibiotics is doing to our health: contributing to the rise of obesity, asthma, diabetes, and certain forms of cancer. Here the author invites us into the...
11) The Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Symposium 2014: antimicrobial resistance : a problem without borders
Publisher
The National Academies Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A New York Times bestselling author shares this exhilarating story of cutting-edge science and the race against the clock to find new treatments in the fight against the antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as superbugs. Physician, researcher, and ethics professor Matt McCarthy is on the front lines of a groundbreaking clinical trial testing a new antibiotic to fight lethal superbugs, bacteria that have built up resistance to the life-saving drugs...
16) Antibiotics
Publisher
Greenhaven Pr
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Antibiotics: Introducing Issues with Opposing Viewpoints is a series that examines current issues from different viewpoints, set up in a pro/con format"--
17) Critical
Author
Series
Jack Stapleton / Laurie Montgomery volume 7
Language
English
Description
Angela Dawson, M.D., appears to have it all: at the age of thirty-seven, she owns a fabulous New York City apartment, a stunning seaside house on Nantucket, and enjoys the perks of her prosperous lifestyle. But her climb to the top was rough, marked by a troubled childhood, a failed marriage, and the devastating blow of bankruptcy as a primary-care internist. Painfully aware of the role of economics in modern life, particularly in the health-care...
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"This book explores the role that environmental distribution of antimicrobial resistance genes and antibiotics plays in ecosystem and human health. The text features a multi-disciplinary framework that connects microbiology, environmental toxicology, and chemistry to assess human and ecological risk associated with exposure to antibiotics or antibiotic resistance genes as environmental contaminants. It also considers alternate uses and functions for...