Toxin The Cunning of Bacterial Poisons 1st Edition by Alistair Lax ISBN 978-0198605584 0198605587
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ISBN 10: 0198605587
ISBN 13: 978-0198605584
Author: Alistair J. Lax
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 by poisoned umbrella-tip of a Bulgarian dissident in the 1970s? The answer is that all of these are caused by toxins, the powerful biological poisons released by bacteria and some plants.
In Toxin, Alistair Lax reveals the panoply of ways in which bacterial toxins overcome the defenses of our cells. He explains how they work, how they are so successful in causing major diseases, the terrible human impact they have had, and how apparently “new” diseases arise from them. He also discusses how we can combat toxins, and how we can harness their actions for beneficial purposes. Enlivened by 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.
Table of contents:
1:Toxins are everywhere: how toxins affected history
2:The germ of an idea: a gradual acceleration up to the mid 1850s
3:The Golden Age of Microbiology: Pasteur, Koch and the birth of the toxin concept
4:The anatomy of diphtheria: taming the deadly scourge of childhood
5:Understanding: all toxins fit into three basic mechanisms
6:Why are plague and typhoid so deadly? A further layer of cleverness
7:Deviant biology: weapons, espionage and man’s innate inhumanity
8:A more optimistic outcome: from poison to cure and the cell biologist’s toolkit
9:Where is toxinology going now? Is there anything new out there?
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