Missing Microbes: How Killing Bacteria Creates Modern Plagues

Missing Microbes: How Killing Bacteria Creates Modern Plagues by Martin J. Blaser. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781780744414.

Is there a cost to anti-bacterial fervour? Dr. Martin Blaser invites us deep under our skin into the human "micro biome." For thousands of years humans and bacteria have co-existed, but now much of our internal environment is being destroyed. The culprit? Some of our most revered medical advances: antibiotics. This book stands a provocative alarm that we ignore at our own peril.