Timebomb : the global epidemic of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis / Lee B. Reichman with Janice Ho...
Timebomb : the global epidemic of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis / Lee B. Reichman with Janice Ho...
Timebomb : the global epidemic of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis / Lee B. Reichman with Janice Hopkins Tanne.
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New York : McGraw-Hill, c2002.
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N614.542/8
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English
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xvi, 240 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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1. Ebola with Wings -- 2. Cows and Mummies: A Brief History of Tuberculosis -- 3. The World Is Different Now -- 4. TB in the Time of AIDS -- 5. Smoke and Mirrors in Moscow -- 6. Inside the Gulag -- 7. The Russian Style of TB Treatment -- 8. Fingerprinting the Bacteria -- 9. Epidemic in New York -- 1...
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New York : McGraw-Hill, c2002.
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New York (State)
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c2002.
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"Two billion people - one-third of the world's population - are infected with latent tuberculosis. Ten percent of those infected will develop active TB in their lifetimes. A scourge supposedly defeated by antibiotics half a century ago, tuberculosis kills more people today than ever before in history. And the numbers aren't getting any better. Wors...
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Timebomb : the global epidemic of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis / Lee B. Reichman with Janice Hopkins Tanne.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2002.
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N614.542/8
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0071359249 (alk. paper)
9780071359245
0071359249
9780071422505 (pbk.)
0071422501 (pbk.)
9780071359245 (alk. paper)
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614.542
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