Revenge Of The Microbes Summary

‘Revenge of the microbes’ by Abigail A. Salyer and co-author Dixie D. Whitt are both professors in the department of Microbiology at the University of Illinois. After thorough research by the professors, this great piece was published. This masterpiece, happens to be a reliable source for mere educative information about the microbiological world we find ourselves in but it could also be used as a good source for rich information about the activities of microbes and the role they play in our daily activities, and how microbes like bacteria are rapidly resisting to antibacterial treatment giving them the title “superbugs”. This book happens to singly answer questions average persons might ask about microbes and antibiotics, from their discovery to how they are managing to adapt and resist to the miracles antibiotics performed even on our soldiers during the World War II. …show more content…
The plot of this book was well structured with the authors delivering educative facts about what antibiotics are in general, the impacts they do have on diseases such as tuberculosis, bacterial pneumonia and how they make surgery and cancer chemotherapy safe. They continue to further educate their readers about the early days research to discover antibiotics from the soil to how they accidentally discovered the penicillin in the lab and how widely it got known during the global war era. ‘Thanks to PENICILLIN…he will come home’ was written on a famous poster during the war. After the discovery of antibiotics, little did we know that for the fact that the microbes have been around way before humans and plants existed, the resistance to antibiotics would emerge even after the misuse in humans, agriculture and