The Forgotten Cure The Past and Future of Phage Therapy /

• Main Author: Kuchment, Anna (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Laboratory medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Laboratory Medicine.

“Bacteriophages have the potential to stop many if not most life threatening, drug resistant bacterial infections.  The Forgotten Cure is a non-stop, cover to cover read.” James D. Watson, Nobel Laureate     “A lively tale of killer viruses, superbugs and a magical cure that has all the twists of a...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue
• Helpful Little Bodies
• Inside Stalin's Empire
• The Fading of Phage Therapy
• Naked Genes
• They're Not a Panacea
• In Poland: Phages for Diabetes?
• The Renaissance of Phage Therapy
• The Startups
• Four Companies, Four Strategies
• Cows and Chickens
• Approval, At Last
• In Treatment
• Epilogue
• Index.