Microterrors: The Complete Guide to Bacterial, viral and Fungal Infections That Threaten Our Health - Tapa blanda

Hart, Tony

 
9781552979709: Microterrors: The Complete Guide to Bacterial, viral and Fungal Infections That Threaten Our Health
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ISBN 10: 1552979709 ISBN 13: 9781552979709
Editorial: Firefly Books Ltd, 2004

Sinopsis

The hidden dangers surrounding us.

Despite the confident strides of modern science, the threat of deadly unseen organisms such as viruses, bacteria and fungi still grip the imagination with their ferocious intensity.

For instance, resistant strains of bacteria can now survive the strongest antibiotics and deadly new biological weapons are being cooked up in laboratories worldwide.

Microterrors explores these threats as well as humanity's greatest living rivals that have been on the planet far longer than we have.

The introduction covers terms, definitions and a brief natural history, including the role of viruses in human evolution, as well as bioengineering and biological weapons. Microterrors then presents the truly terrifying rogues' gallery of invisible killers.

Dramatic life-like digital illustrations and computer-colored electron images provide mug book profiles of hundreds of naturally occurring and bioengineered microterrors, including:

  • Ebola, bubonic plague, cholera, malaria
  • Bacteria: pneumonia, anthrax, botulism
  • Viruses: HIV, hepatitis, common cold
  • Fungi and blood and tissue diseases.

Each entry includes concise facts such as date of discovery and place of origin, period of incubation, symptoms and length of suffering, likelihood of death, treatments, vaccines and cures.

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Charles Hart, MBBS, BSc, PhD, FRCPCH, FRCPath is one of the world's leading experts on medical microbiology. He is the author of many articles and books.

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Editorial
Firefly Books Ltd
Año de publicación
2004
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ISBN 10 
1552979709
ISBN 13 
9781552979709
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