Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues (42 page)

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Copyright © 2014 by Martin Blaser. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Blaser, Martin J.

    Missing microbes: how the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues / Dr. Martin Blaser.

            pages       cm

    Includes index.

    ISBN 978-0-8050-9810-5 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-8050-9811-2 (electronic copy)

1.  Antibiotics.   2.  Antibiotics—Effectiveness.   3.  Drug resistance in microorganisms.   I.  Title.

    RM267.B57 2014

    615.7'922—dc23                                2013042578

First Edition: April 2014