Superbug : the fatal menace of MRSA /
McKenna, Maryn.
Superbug : the fatal menace of MRSA / Maryn McKenna. - 1st Free Press hardcover ed. - New York : Free Press, 2010. - xiii, 271 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-254) and index.
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.
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.
9781416557272 (alk. paper) 141655727X (alk. paper) 9781416557289 (alk. paper) 1416557288 (alk. paper) 9781439171837 1439171831
2009037793
101515002 DNLM
Staphylococcus aureus infections.
Methicillin resistance.
QR201.S68 / M45 2010
616.9/297
WC 250 / M478s 2010
Superbug : the fatal menace of MRSA / Maryn McKenna. - 1st Free Press hardcover ed. - New York : Free Press, 2010. - xiii, 271 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-254) and index.
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.
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.
9781416557272 (alk. paper) 141655727X (alk. paper) 9781416557289 (alk. paper) 1416557288 (alk. paper) 9781439171837 1439171831
2009037793
101515002 DNLM
Staphylococcus aureus infections.
Methicillin resistance.
QR201.S68 / M45 2010
616.9/297
WC 250 / M478s 2010