The End of an Antibiotic Era: Bacteria's Triumph Over a Universal Remedy

ISBN-13: 9783030707224 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 322 str.

Rinke van den Brink

Recenzje

“The book is geared toward healthcare personnel but truly hits the heart of humankind. … . written with very specific topics that were easy to find, identify, and read.” (Dyanne L Medlock, Doody's Book Reviews, December 10, 2021)

Spis treści

Preface (Prof. Dr. Alex W. Friedrich)

Introduction

1. In the beginning there was antibiotic resistance
2. Human and economic costs
3. Mega-outbreak at Maasstad Hospital

A thin layer of faeces on everything you touch

1. The beginning of the end
2. The end in sight?
3. Looking behind the figures
4. The role of microbiology

INTERREG projects: ‘Pathogens don’t recognise any borders’

   Afterword

O autorze

Rinke van den Brink (1955) is a journalist and writer. Since 2005 he works as a health editor at NOS News Netherlands, in a multimedia editorial staff. He published his first articles in 1977 and is a professional journalist, since 1982. He worked for different radio-stations in the Netherlands, was correspondent in Amsterdam for different foreign and French-spoken newspapers and radio- and tv-stations. He worked long-time for the Dutch weekly Vrij Nederland and wrote four books on extreme-right political movements in Western-Europe, over the past years. March 2013, he published Het einde van de antibiotica (The end of antibiotics), after several years of research. This book on antimicrobial resistance and infectious diseases was strongly revised and enlarged in 2015 for a German edition.