The plague makers : how we are creating catastrophic new epidemics-- and what we must do to avert them

The plague makers : how we are creating catastrophic new epidemics-- and what we must do to avert them / Jeffrey A. Fisher.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fisher, Jeffrey A., 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1994.
Subjects:
Antibiotics > Side effects.
Drug resistance in microorganisms.
Nosocomial infections.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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