For many lonely years Dr.Stuart Levy seemed to be a solo voice in the wilderness,warning the world that the cures that revolutionized our lives might be redered useless.His first edition of The Antibiotic paradox was a bugle call for the troops.This new,spectacular edition should be the trumpet call at the wlaas of jericho:joshua,blow your horn!Any reasonable physician,scientist,politician or citizen should read this book,and heed Levy's clarion call.Time for procrastination,on all our parts,han run out.

作者简介:
Stuart B.Levy,M.d.,is a world renowned authority on antibiontic use and resistance,on which he has written and lectured extensively.He discovered drug efflux as a mechanism for antibiotic resistance and was among the first to document the transfer of drug resistance among animals and people.He is currently Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology and of Medicine;Director of the Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance at the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston,Massachrsetts;and a staff physician at the New England Medical Center.Dr.Levy is also president of the international Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics and cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer of Paratek Pharmaceuticals,Inc.Profiled in the New Yorkdr for his work in antibiotics,he has also been quoted in all major periodicals and newspapers,including Time,Newsweek,U.S. News and World Reportk,the New York Times,the Washington Post,and USA Today.He has appeared on the Today Show,Good Morning America,NOVA,and all major television news networks.Chairperson of a government-sponsored international three-year study of antibiotic use and resistance world-wide,Dr.Levy is the past president of the 42,000-member American Society for Microbiology and received the 1995Hoechst-Roussel Award for esteemed research in antimicrobial chemotherapy.He was awarded an honororary degree of Doctor is Science from Wesleyan University in1998 and from Des Moines University in 2001.

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments
1 From Tragedy the Antibiltic Age is Brrn
2 The Disease and the Cure:The Microscopic World of Bacteria and Antibiotics
3 Reliance on Medicines and Self-Medication:The Seeds of Antibiotic Misuse
4 Antibiotic Resistance:Microbial Adaptation and Evolution
5 The Antbiontic Myth
6 Antibiotics,Animals,and the Resistance Gene Pool
7 Further Ecologic Considerations:Antibiotic Use is griculture,Aquaculture,Pets,and Minor Animal Species
8 Future Prospects:New Advances against Impending Disaster
8 The Individual and Antibiotic Resistance
10 The Antibacterial Graze
12 Antibiotic Resistance:A Societal Issue at Local,National,and International Levels
Epilogue:Anthrax,Bioterrism,and Antibiotic Stockpiling:Consequences Beyond the Scare
References Cited
Bibliography
Index