Guilfoile, Patrick G.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria / [by] Patrick G. Guilfoile ; founding editor, I. Edward Alcamo ; foreword by David Heymann. - New York : Chelsea, 2007. - 128 p. : ill. (some col.), port., charts ; 24 cm. - Deadly diseases and epidemics .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Discusses the use of antibiotics to treat diseases, how antibiotic-resistant bacteria have evolved, and the efforts of scientists to develop new medicines and treatments to fight the new bacteria.

5-9.

9780791091883 0791091880

2006017589


Drug resistance in microorganisms.

QR177 / .G85 2007

616.9/041

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