Good germs, bad germs : health and survival in a bacterial world

Good germs, bad germs : health and survival in a bacterial world / Jessica Snyder Sachs.

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Main Author: Sachs, Jessica Snyder
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Hill and Wang, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Microbiology.
Medical microbiology.
Bacteriology.
Communicable diseases.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Contributor biographical information
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Table of Contents:
  • The war on germs
  • Life on man
  • Too clean?
  • Bugs on drugs
  • Fighting smarter, not harder
  • Beyond lethal force: defang, deflect, and deploy
  • Fixing the patient
  • Coda: embracing the microbiome.
  • Seven key terms and conventions
  • Prologue : A good war gone bad
  • Ricky's story
  • Daniel's story
  • Revenge of the microbes?
  • pt. 1. The war on germs
  • From miasmas to microbes
  • Germ theory reborn
  • The sanitarians
  • The search for magic bullets
  • pt. 2. Life on man
  • The body as ecosystem
  • Into the mouths of babes
  • Life on the surface
  • Life on the inside
  • Bugs in space
  • Where no biologist has gone before
  • The inner tube of life
  • Who's the boss?
  • A new window opens
  • Stealth infections or innocent bystanders?
  • pt. 3. Too clean?
  • Hair trigger
  • From Hippocrates to the hygiene hypothesis
  • A history of self-destruction
  • Children in the cowshed
  • Teaching tolerance
  • Innate immunity
  • The dirt vaccine
  • Old friends
  • Beyond immunity
  • pt. 4. Bugs on drugs
  • A killer in the nursery
  • An end to bacterial disease?
  • Microscopic mating games
  • The bacterial superorganism
  • Danger ignored
  • Old habits, new insights
  • Out of the hospital and into our daily lives
  • The reservoir within
  • Resistance by the shovel
  • Down on the farm
  • The antibiotic paradox
  • pt. 5. Fighting smarter not harder
  • The good old days?
  • Preserving antibiotics : less is more
  • Homing in on the enemy
  • Drugs with on -off switches
  • Silencing resistance
  • Farming out resistance
  • Beyond antibiotics : new ways to kill
  • Cocoons and frog slime
  • pt. 6. Beyond lethal force : defant, deflect, and deploy
  • Drugs that disarm
  • Vaccines - forewarned is forearmed
  • Domesticate and deploy
  • Prescription probiotics
  • Fighting fire with fire
  • A superhero for the mouth
  • Transgenic probiotics
  • Probiotics for livestock
  • A second neolithic revolution
  • pt. 7. Fixing the patient
  • The dragon within
  • Enhancing the bionic human
  • From sepsis to chronic inflammation
  • Immunobug immunodrugs
  • Tweaking the bug
  • Into the future
  • Coda : Embracing the microbiome
  • Notes
  • Further reading
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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