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Phages attacking Piscirickettsia mibrobes. Courtesy of Dr. S. A. Yuksel
  • Foreword
  • Preface          Why all the fuss? (click to read)
  • Chapter 1      At the limits of medicine (click for excerpt)
  • Chapter 2      Invincible microbes: the extent of the antibiotics resistance crisis
  • Chapter 3     The wild pioneer era: phage therapy from 1915 – 1940
  • Chapter 4     The renaissance of phages during the war: 1939 – 1945
  • Chapter 5     A parallel universe: phage therapy in the Soviet Union
  • Chapter 6     Keepers of the grail in peril: phage therapy in Georgia today
  • Chapter 7     Resurrection: current research in phage therapy
  • Chapter 8     What’s the future of phage therapy?
  • Appendix 1   A short list of bacteria
  • Appendix 2  The advantages and disadvantages of phage therapy (click to read)
  • Notes
  • Index