Research Catalog

Title

Timebomb : the global epidemic of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis / Lee B. Reichman with Janice Hopkins Tanne.

Author

Reichman, Lee B., 1938-

Publication

New York : McGraw-Hill, c2002.

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Additional Authors

Tanne, Janice Hopkins

Description

xvi, 240 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

Explores the threat tuberculosis poses to the modern world, discussing why more people are dying from it now than ever before, how it has become resistant to drug therapies, how it is spread, and how it can be treated.

Subject

• Disease Outbreaks
• Disease Outbreaks > United States
• Drug Resistance, Multiple
• Multidrug resistance > Popular works
• Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis > Popular works
• Russia
• Russia > epidemiology
• Tuberculosis
• Tuberculosis > Popular works
• Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant > epidemiology
• Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant > epidemiology > United States
• Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > epidemiology
• United States
• United States > epidemiology

Genre/Form

• Popular Work
• Popular works
• Popular works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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 -- 10. DOTS in the real world -- 11. Why are there no new drugs or vaccines for TB? -- 12. The unusual suspects -- 13. Tiger at the gates.

ISBN

0071359249 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001034523

OCLC

44852109

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library