Timebomb the global epidemic of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis / Lee B. Reichman with Janice Hopkins Tanne.
| Author/creator | Reichman, Lee B., 1938- |
| Other author | Tanne, Janice Hopkins. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : McGraw-Hill, |
| Description | xvi, 240 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: Preface ix --Acknowledgments xv --1 Ebola with Wings 1 -- 2 Cows and Mummies: A Brief History of Tuberculosis 11 -- 3 The World Is Different Now 23 -- 4 TB in the Time of AIDS 43 -- 5 Smoke and Mirrors in Moscow 63 -- 6 Inside the Gulag 87 -- 7 The Russian Style of TB Treatment 109 -- 8 Fingerprinting the Bacteria 127 -- 9 Epidemic in New York 139 -- 10 DOTS in the Real World 155 -- 11 Why Are There No New Drugs or Vaccines for TB? 171 -- 12 The Unusual Suspects 189 -- 13 Tiger at the Gates 201 --Epilogue The Kursk Syndrome 215 --Notes 217 -- Hot Zones of MDR-TB 227 -- Index 228. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2001034523 |
| ISBN | 0071359249 (alk. paper) |
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