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Killers Within : The Deadly Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria

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Format Paperback / softback
ISBN-10 075153949X
ISBN-13 9780751539493
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint Sphere
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Aug 3rd, 2006
Print length 336 Pages
Weight 390 grams
Dimensions 21.40 x 12.80 x 2.50 cms
KSh 2,400.00
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* Dramatic, narrative-driven analysis of the increasing threat of drug-resistant bacteria to the world. * The Killers Within describes the full horror of our most primitive but potentially most deadly enemy - and man's attemptys to stop it. * The Killers Within describes the full horror of our most primitive but potentially most deadly enemy - and man's attempts to stop it.

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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