The Forgotten Cure : The Past and Future of Phage Therapy. 1st ed. 2012

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by Anna Kuchment

出版情報:

New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012

著者名:

• Kuchment, Anna.
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ISBN:

9781461402510 [1461402514]    

注記:

Prologue -- Helpful Little Bodies -- Inside Stalin's Empire -- The Fading of Phage Therapy -- Naked Genes -- They're Not a Panacea -- In Poland: Phages for Diabetes? -- The Renaissance of Phage Therapy -- The Startups -- Four Companies, Four Strategies -- Cows and Chickens -- Approval, At Last -- In Treatment -- Epilogue -- Index.
“Bacteriophages have the potential to stop many if not most life threatening, drug resistant bacterial infections. The Forgotten Cure is a non-stop, cover to cover read.” James D. Watson, Nobel Laureate “A lively tale of killer viruses, superbugs and a magical cure that has all the twists of a cold-war spy novel.” – George Hackett, Newsweek magazine “A marvelous, jargon-free historical account of the genesis, the ups-and-downs, and the current renaissance of phage therapy. The Forgotten Cure ranks at the level of Judson’s Eighth Day of Creation.” Sankar Adhya National Institutes of Health The Forgotten Cure: How a Long Lost Treatment Can Save Lives in the 21st Century Before the arrival of penicillin in the 1940s, phage therapy was one of the few weapons doctors had against bacterial infections. It saved the life of Hollywood legend Tom Mix before being abandoned by Western science. Now, researchers and physicians are rediscovering the treatment, which pits phage viruses against their natural bacterial hosts,

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