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Invincible microbe : tuberculosis and the never-ending search for a cure / Jim Murphy and Alison Blank.

Author: Murphy, Jim, 1947-

Publisher: Boston : Clarion Books, 2012.

ISBN: 9780618535743 (hbk.)
0618535748 (hbk.)

Description: 149 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject: Tuberculosis Juvenile literature.
Microorganisms Juvenile literature.
Tuberculosis.
Microorganisms.
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / History of Science. bisacsh
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology. bisacsh
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Health & Daily Living / Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries. bisacsh
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism. bisacsh
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Discoveries. bisacsh

Contents: This is the story -- In the beginning -- The king's evil -- "There is a dread disease" -- Into the mountains -- "To comfort always" -- The cause -- The outsiders -- The cure -- "Like a fairy tale" -- Supergerms -- Hot spots.

Summary: The "biography" of the deadly germ tuberculosis, an account of the diagnosis, treatment, and "cure" of the disease over time, and the social history of an illness that could strike anywhere but was most prevalent among the poor.

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