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Making Peace with Microbes
Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises by disrupting the intimate, age-old balance between humans and the microorganisms that inhabit our bodies and our environment. As a result, antibiotic resistance now ranks among the gravest medical problems of modern times. Good Germs, Bad Germs addresses not only...
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Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xviii, 294 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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"With straight-forward and engaging writing, infectious diseases physician Phillip Peterson surveys how our understanding of viruses has changed throughout history, from early plagues and pandemics to more recent outbreaks like HIV/AIDS, Ebola, and the Zika virus. Microbes also takes on contemporary issues like the importance of vaccinations in the face of the growing anti-vaxxer movement, as well as the rise of cutting-edge health treatments like...
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Guadalmazán
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Probablemente todo lo relacionado con los microbios te suene a suciedad, a enfermedades y a infecciones; y es cierto algunos microorganismos causan enfermedades incluso mortales, pero la inmensa mayoría de los microbios son muy beneficiosos, cuando no imprescindibles, para nosotros. Están por todas partes y por ellos es posible la vida en el planeta. También están dentro de nosotros. La microbiota es esa comunidad de microorganismos buenos que...
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