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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1999) 44, 857
© 1999 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Book review

Of Mice, Men and Microbes: Hantavirus

David R. Harper and Andrea S. Meyer Academic Press (Harcourt Brace), 1999. ISBN 0 12 326460 X. £19.95.

R. C. Spencer

Head of Bacteriology, Bristol Public Health Laboratory, Level 8, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Marlborough Street, Bristol BS2 8HW, UK

At the end of the Second World War, the discovery of penicillin convinced many that antibiotics, together with immunization and improved public health measures, would prove the death-knell of infections. In the intervening 45 years, however, only one infectious disease has been conquered—smallpox. As the twentieth . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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