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    • Pub. Date: May 2005
    • 152pp

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      • Pub. Date: May 2005
      • Publisher: Authorhouse
      • Format: Hardcover, 152pp

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      Stalking Microbesby Anonymous

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      August 15, 2005: By sharing his gripping stories (case studies) and travels as an infectious diease epidemiologist, readers learn about the detective work that goes behind finding the guilty microbe that caused a well person to suddenly become comatose or a person undergoing routine surgery to wear the scarlet red letters of MRSA or VRE. Readers learn about what roles Sir Alexander Ogston, Alexander Fleming, Robert Koch, Hans Christian Joachim Gram, Pasteur, Paul Erlichand, Dr. Ignaz Sammelweis, and Dr. Wenzel himself play in the evolution of microbiology, infectious disease, and epidemiology. In the book, we travel from the White House to Philadelphia, Manila, Taipai, Dacca, NIH, Paris Island, UVA, Belgium, Iowa, and Richmond, Virginia's Virginia Commonwealth University.

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      July 14, 2005: A fascinating series of popular essays weaving the art and the science of infectious diseases with the expertise of a leading physician and epidemiologist, Richard Wenzel's new book, Stalking Microbes, illustrates the creativity and curiosity doctors need as successful warriors against illness. Wenzel pulls readers into the complex detective work surrounding a puzzling fatal outbreak in the ICU, a strange string of deaths around Charlottesville, VA, and the lessons learned in Bangladesh while studying cholera. Wenzel is a professor and chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He is President-Elect of the International Society for Infectious Diseases and Editor-at-Large of the New England Journal of Medicine. On the book's jacket author Sherwin Nuland describes 'Stalking Microbes' as a 'unique and page-turning read ... by one of [infectious diseases] ablest generals.' Poet John Stone describes the author as 'a wise and gentle Virgil ... an excellent storyteller.'