Anna Kuchment: The Forgotten Cure | Buch

Cover: 9781461402503 | The Forgotten Cure | The Past and Future of Phage Therapy | Kuchment

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Beschreibung

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, as a potential weapon against antibiotic-resistant infections.
The Forgotten Cure traces the story of phages from Paris, where they were discovered in 1917; to Tbilisi, Georgia, where one of phage therapy¿s earliest proponents died at the hands of Stalin; to the Nobel podium, where prominent scientists have been recognized for breakthroughs stemming from phage research. Today, a crop of biotech startups and dedicated physicians is racing to win regulatory approval for phage therapy before superbugs exhaust the last drug in the medical arsenal. Will they clear the hurdles in time?

Zusammenfassung

Comprehensive, unprecedented history of phage therapy

Offers a lay person's perspective on an often ignored topic of research

Has a broad appeal, beyond just researchers/scientists

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Fachbereich:	Therapie
Genre:	Importe , Medizin
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	xvi 132 S.
ISBN-13:	9781461402503
ISBN-10:	1461402506
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	80061294
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Kuchment, Anna
Hersteller:	Springer US Springer New York
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	241 x 160 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Anna Kuchment
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.12.2011
Gewicht:	0,395 kg