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Superbugs

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Superbugs

By William Hall, Anthony McDonnell, Jim O'Neill

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Antibiotics are powerful drugs that can prevent and treat infections, but they are becoming less effective as a result of drug resistance. Resistance develops because the bacteria that antibiotics target can evolve ways to defend themselves against these drugs. When antibiotics fail, there is very little else to prevent an infection from spreading.Unnecessary use of antibiotics in both humans and animals accelerates the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria, with potentially catastrophic personal...Show more

Political science and theory

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9780674975989

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2018

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1

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Superbugs

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Hardcover

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