In the Blink of an Eye The Deadly Story of Epidemic Meningitis /

• Main Author: Artenstein, Andrew W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Emerging infectious diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Infectious Diseases.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4845-7

Describing more than two centuries of epidemic meningitis, In the Blink of an Eye introduces a deadly and frightening bacterial infection of the brainone that afflicts healthy children and young adults in dramatic fashion, often changing or taking lives in just hours or days. �Meningococcal meningi...

Table of Contents:

• Origins
• The Art and Science of Germs
• A Singular Disease
• A Very Mortal Disease
• Early Approaches at Therapy
• Antibiotics and Survival of the Fittest
• A Brief History of Vaccines
• That Soulble Specific Substance
• Towards a Vaccine
• Success for Half
• The Future of a Killer.