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RECORD NUMBER: 33 OF 39| Main Title | Plague makers : how we are creating catastrophic new epidemics-- and what we must do to avert them / | |||||||||||
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| Author | Fisher, Jeffrey A. | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster, | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 1994 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 29521207 | |||||||||||
| ISBN | 0671791567 : | |||||||||||
| Subjects | Antibiotics--Side effects ; Drug resistance in microorganisms ; Nosocomial infections ; Drug Resistance, Microbial ; Antibiotics--adverse effects ; Cross Infection | |||||||||||
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| Collation | 256 p. ; 25 cm. | |||||||||||
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references (p. {229}-240) and index. |
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| Contents Notes | Prelude to disaster -- Hospitals: the places you go to get sick -- Apocalypse soon? -- The possible link between antiobiotics and AIDS -- Completing the AIDS hypothesis -- Dangerous exports from the Third World -- Bigger animals, more resistance -- First cures, first problems -- More cures and the widening problem -- The miseducation of physicians -- Fifteen things you can do to avert catastrophe -- A glossary of the most commonly used antibiotics in human therapy -- A specific guide to proper antiobiotic use -- Names and addresses of organizations and individuals concerned with proper antiobiotic use. |