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Lougheed captures the past 20 years or so of TB research with an insider's eye ... the fascinating pathogen and its deadly interactions with its host fuel Lougheed's book. Through her passion, many others may find inspiration. (Science)
An impressive survey. (New York Times Book Review)
Kathryn Lougheed gives an illuminating tour of TB past and present, explaining why it has once again become the world's leading infectious killer and describing the myriad reasons why we have still not defeated it. (Mike Mandelbaum, Chief Executive, TB Alert)
Tuberculosis is currently the leading cause of infectious deaths across the world and has proven difficult to address with drugs or vaccines. Kathryn Lougheed pulls back the curtain on this forgotten pandemic and reveals the biology of a pathogen that has achieved world domination in an engaging, accessible and yes, occasionally even humorous fashion. (Sarah Fortune, MS, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Kathryn Lougheed conveys the excitement and frustrations of cutting edge research in a convivial and accessible manner that will delight and inform both specialist and non-specialist readers. (Douglas B. Young, Fleming Professor of Medical Microbiology, Imperial College London)
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An impressive survey. (New York Times Book Review)
Kathryn Lougheed gives an illuminating tour of TB past and present, explaining why it has once again become the world's leading infectious killer and describing the myriad reasons why we have still not defeated it. (Mike Mandelbaum, Chief Executive, TB Alert)
Tuberculosis is currently the leading cause of infectious deaths across the world and has proven difficult to address with drugs or vaccines. Kathryn Lougheed pulls back the curtain on this forgotten pandemic and reveals the biology of a pathogen that has achieved world domination in an engaging, accessible and yes, occasionally even humorous fashion. (Sarah Fortune, MS, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Kathryn Lougheed conveys the excitement and frustrations of cutting edge research in a convivial and accessible manner that will delight and inform both specialist and non-specialist readers. (Douglas B. Young, Fleming Professor of Medical Microbiology, Imperial College London)
Tuberculosis has twisted through the millennia hand-in-hand with humanity, leaving its marks on our culture, our history and our DNA, from the birth of Homo sapiens right up to the present day. TB continues to kill more people than any other infectious agent; it may be an ancient disease, but TB is not a disease of history.
In Catching Breath, Kathryn Lougheed asks what has made Mycobacterium tuberculosis such a successful bacterium, and how we can use this knowledge to consign it to the history books. We follow its path through the ages, from its time gathering strength as a latent infection of hunter-gatherers to its rise alongside human urbanisation and industrialisation, and learn just how connected human history is to TB - from an Ancient Egyptian murder mystery and the rumours of the first vampires to a tragedy set in the Amazon rainforest.
Catching Breath - the story of one of the world's oldest diseases - looks at the hidden biology behind the interactions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with its human host, and shows how drug resistance, the HIV epidemic, poverty and inequality work together to ensure that TB remains one of the most serious problems in world medicine.
If we can understand the makings of TB, then maybe we can find a way to unmake it.
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: New. 1. With more than a million victims every year--more than any other disease, including malaria--and antibiotic resistance now found in every country worldwide, tuberculosis is once again proving itself to be one of the smartest killers that humanity has ever faced. But it's hardly surprising considering how long it's had to hone its skills. Forty-thousand years ago, our ancestors set off from the cradle of civilization on their journey towards populating the planet. Tuberculosis hitched a lift and came with us, and it's been there ever since; waiting, watching, and learning.The organism responsible, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has had plenty of time to adapt to its chosen habitat--human lungs--and has learned through natural selection to be an almost perfect pathogen. Using our own immune cells as a Trojan Horse to aid its spread, it's come up with clever ways to avoid being killed by antibiotics. But patience has been its biggest lesson--it can enter into a latent state when times are tough, only to come back to life when a host's immune system is compromised. Today, more than one million people die of the disease every year and around one-third of the world's population are believed to be infected. That's more than two billion people. Throw in the compounding problems of drug resistance, the HIV epidemic, and poverty, and it's clear that tuberculosis remains one of the most serious problems in world medicine.Catching Breath follows the history of TB through the ages, from its time as an infection of hunter-gatherers to the first human villages, which set it up with everything it needed to become the monstrous disease it is today, through to the perils of industrialization and urbanization. It goes on to look at the latest research in fighting the disease, with stories of modern scientific research, interviews with doctors on the TB frontline, and the personal experiences of those affected by the disease. Nº de ref. del artículo: DADAX1472930339
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