Toxin: The Cunning of Bacterial Poisons
Alistair J. Lax, «Toxin: The Cunning of Bacterial Poisons»
Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198605587 2005-11-02 208 pages PDF 1.5 Mb
What do the following have in common: the promise of Botox as the key to everlasting youthful looks; E. coli O157 hamburger disease; a mysterious illness which killed 35 heroin users in 2000; and the assassination poisoned umbrella-tip of a Bulgarian dissident in the 1970s? The answer is that all of these are caused bacterial toxins, the powerful biological poisons released bacteria and some plants. In Toxin, Alistair Lax reveals the panoply of ways in which bacterial toxins overcome the defences of our cells. He explains how they work, how they are so successful in causing major , the terrible human impact they have had, and how apparently ‘new’ arise from them. He also discusses how we can combat toxins, and how we can harness their actions for beneficial purposes. Enlivened the very human story of the persistence, rivalries, and insights from which modern microbiology grew, Toxin is the first widely accessible account of this exciting and important topic.
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