Superbug : the fatal menace of MRSA / Maryn McKenna.

McKenna reveals the hidden history of MRSA's relentless advance-- how it has overwhelmed hospitals, assaulted families, and infiltrated agriculture and live-stock, moving inexorably into the food chain.

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Main Author: McKenna, Maryn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Free Press, 2010.
Edition:1st Free Press hardcover ed.
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505 0 |a The first alert -- The cloud babies -- The silent attack -- The puzzle pieces -- The biggest thing since AIDS -- The flood rising -- Gone without warning -- The foe on the field -- Prison, the perfect incubator -- Into the food chain -- Soap, the wonder cure -- The end of antibiotics -- The epidemics converging. 
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650 0 |a Methicillin resistance.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91005976. 
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