Superbug
The Fatal Menace of MRSA
Seiten
2011
The Free Press (Verlag)
978-1-4165-5728-9 (ISBN)
The Free Press (Verlag)
978-1-4165-5728-9 (ISBN)
Deeply researched revelation of escalating danger of drug-resistant bacteria, MSRA.
Maryn McKenna offers an intense and critical look into the frightening, and ongoing, evolution of drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Though once controlled by antibiotics, the overuse of these medicines has enabled the bacteria to evolve. Those fighting the disease are engaged in a Darwinian battle that MRSA is, for the most part, winning. Entire classes of antibiotics are now ineffective against MRSA, and, to make matters worse, researchers have proven that the resistant bacteria are not a problem limited to hospitals, which used to be the case. MRSA has spread to communities and can now originate outside of hospitals.
McKenna highlights the tragic examples of patients, particularly children, who were otherwise healthy when MRSA invaded their systems, and their gruelling battles in which available drugs offered little or no help. In many cases, the infection overwhelms their systems and, to the shock of their family, the patients die within a short period of time. The stories she tells are horrifying cautionary tales.
Superbugsounds an alarm to bring wide recognition of the severity of the problem and prompt the required action from governments, healthcare facilities, prescription drug makers, and individuals at home, all of which McKenna lays out in a clear and persuasive style.
Maryn McKenna offers an intense and critical look into the frightening, and ongoing, evolution of drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Though once controlled by antibiotics, the overuse of these medicines has enabled the bacteria to evolve. Those fighting the disease are engaged in a Darwinian battle that MRSA is, for the most part, winning. Entire classes of antibiotics are now ineffective against MRSA, and, to make matters worse, researchers have proven that the resistant bacteria are not a problem limited to hospitals, which used to be the case. MRSA has spread to communities and can now originate outside of hospitals.
McKenna highlights the tragic examples of patients, particularly children, who were otherwise healthy when MRSA invaded their systems, and their gruelling battles in which available drugs offered little or no help. In many cases, the infection overwhelms their systems and, to the shock of their family, the patients die within a short period of time. The stories she tells are horrifying cautionary tales.
Superbugsounds an alarm to bring wide recognition of the severity of the problem and prompt the required action from governments, healthcare facilities, prescription drug makers, and individuals at home, all of which McKenna lays out in a clear and persuasive style.
Maryn McKenna is an award-winning science and medical writer and author of Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (named one of the top 10 science books of 2004 by Amazon). She currently works as a contributing writer for the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and is a media fellow at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and has also studied at Harvard Medical School. She lives in Minneapolis.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.3.2011 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 146 x 225 mm |
| Gewicht | 333 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Mikrobiologie / Immunologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4165-5728-8 / 1416557288 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4165-5728-9 / 9781416557289 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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