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In June 1999, a 33-year-old woman walked into a San Francisco hospital complaining of acute pain in her legs. The day before, she had what she thought was a flu: fever, dizziness and abdominal pain. Within two hours of her admission to hospital, she was dead, and unrecognisable. The diagnosis: flesh-eating bacteria. Bacteria are one of the most basic life forms on earth, yet they pose a threat to mankind that not even the most sophisticated scientific techniques can contain. The book charts the competition between the drug companies to develop a new super-antibiotic, and the race to save lives and make millions. It also describes the surprising return of a technique that predates penicillin - the development of a phage or virus that kills the bacteria from within.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology

• Full title: Killers Within
• Subtitle: The Deadly Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria
• Author: Michael Shnayerson, Mark Plotkin
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780751539493
• ISBN: 075153949X
• ID: 04909586
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 394 g
• Dimensions: 214 × 128 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. August 2006

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