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• Title:Good germs, bad germs : health and survival in a bacterial world / Jessica Snyder Sachs.
  
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• Author/Creator:Sachs, Jessica Snyder.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Hill and Wang, 2007.
  

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  • Call Number: QW50 .S24 2007
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Microbiology.
  Medical microbiology.
  Bacteriology.
  Communicable diseases.
  
• Medical Subjects: Bacteria.
  Anti-Bacterial Agents.
  Drug Resistance, Microbial.
  Immunity, Innate.
  Microbial Viability.
  Microbiology--trends.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:x, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (page [273]) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780809050635 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  0809050633 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Prologue: A Good War Gone Bad
  Ricky's Story
  Daniel's Story
  Revenge of the Microbes?
  Pt. I. War on Germs
  From Miasmas to Microbes
  Germ Theory Reborn
  Sanitarians
  Search for Magic Bullets
  Pt. II. Life On Man
  Body as Ecosystem
  Into the Mouths of Babes
  Life on the Surface
  Life on the Inside
  Bugs in Space
  Where No Biologist Has Gone Before
  Inner Tube of Life
  Who's the Boss?
  New Window Opens
  Stealth Infections or Innocent Bystanders?
  Pt. III. Too Clean?
  Hair Trigger
  From Hippocrates to the Hygiene Hypothesis
  History of Self-Destruction
  Children in the Cowshed
  Teaching Tolerance
  Innate Immunity
  Dirt Vaccine
  Old Friends
  Beyond Immunity
  Pt. IV. Bugs On Drugs
  Killer in the Nursery
  End to Bacterial Disease?
  Microscopic Mating Games
  Bacterial Superorganism
  Danger Ignored
  Old Habits, New Insights
  Out of the Hospital and into Our Daily Lives
  Reservoir Within
  Resistance by the Shovel
  Down on the Farm
  Antibiotic Paradox
  Pt. V. Fighting Smarter, Not Harder
  Good Old Days?
  Preserving Antibiotics: Less Is More
  Homing In on the Enemy
  Drugs with On-Off Switches
  Silencing Resistance
  Farming Out Resistance
  Beyond Antibiotics: New Ways to Kill
  Cocoons and Frog Slime
  Pt. VI. Beyond Lethal Force - Defang, Deflect, and Deploy
  Drugs That Disarm
  Vaccines - Forewarned Is Forearmed
  Domesticate and Deploy
  Prescription Probiotics
  Fighting Fire with Fire
  Superhero for the Mouth
  Transgenic Probiotics
  Probiotics for Livestock
  Second Neolithic Revolution
  Pt. VII. Fixing the Patient
  Dragon Within
  Enhancing the Bionic Human
  From Sepsis to Chronic Inflammation
  Immunobug Immunodrugs
  Tweaking the Bug
  Into the Future
  CODA: Embracing the Microbiome.