Timebomb

By Lee B. Reichman

Subjects: Multiple Drug Resistance, Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, Disease Outbreaks, Ouvrages de vulgarisation, Public Health, Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Popular works, Tuberculose, Epidemiology, Multidrug resistance, Preventive Medicine, Drug Resistance, Multiple, Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant, Tuberculosis, Forensic Medicine, MEDICAL, Résistance multiple aux médicaments

Description: "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. Worse yet this ancient disease is undergoing a metamorphosis, adapting to our misused medications, growing stronger, becoming unbeatable - becoming multi-drug-resistant."--BOOK JACKET.