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the end of modern medicine?
Siouxsie Wiles.
136 pages.
Contents: A miscellany of microbes -- Infectious diseases around the world and in New Zealand -- A new era of medicine dawns -- Antimicrobial resistance -- How antibiotics are used -- Antibiotic use in New Zealand -- The threats to New Zealand from antibiotic resistance -- Time for action.
Summary: In ten years' time, will antibiotics still work? Have we let bacteria get the upper hand in the evolutionary arms race?In the 1920s the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin started a golden age of medicine. However, experts warn that the end of that age may be just a decade away. In this BWB Text, microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles explores the looming crisis of antibiotic resistance and its threat to New Zealand. Wiles concludes that New Zealand must do more to protect the public from a future without antibiotics. (Publisher)
BWB texts.