Microterrors

microterrors

professor tony hart

EXTENT: 192pp

FORMAT: 215mm x 140mm (5.25 in x 8.5 in)

BINDING: Hardback or Paperback with flaps

ILLUSTRATIONS: Over 180

WORDS: 25,000

Professor Tony Hart, MBBS, BSc, PhD, FRCPCH, FRCPath, is one of the world’s leading authorities on medical microbiology. He is the author of many articles and books on the subject.

Microterrors, invisible agents of disease and death, are all around us—in the air we breathe, the food we eat and the animals with which we share our environment. Many are harmless to those in good health but fatal to those whose immune systems are already compromised, such as the very young or very old, and those suffering from an underlying disease. Microterrors presents a visual catalog of some of the most important, interesting and newsworthy of these biological hazards.

Microbes have a huge influence on our lives. And while they play an important role in keeping us healthy, they also have the power to destroy us. Outbreaks such as the Black Death and AIDS remind us how powerless we can be when faced with hostile bacteria and viruses. Microterrors takes the reader on a journey into the microbe’s world. With amazing computer graphic illustrations and color images of individual viruses and bacteria, it shows humankind’s deadliest enemies up close and answers some very significant questions. What do these tiny organisms really look like? Where do they live? How do they multiply? And how do they damage us? For each entry in this who’s who of microterrors, we find facts such as date of discovery, place of origin, period of incubation, symptoms, likelihood of death, treatments and vaccines, and cures. Dramatic computer-colored electron images provide a fascinating rogues’ gallery of naturally occurring and bioengineered microterrors.