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good germs bad germs health and survival in a bacterial world
public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span ; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises by disrupting the intimate age old balance between humans and the microorganisms that inhabit our bodies and our environment . as a result antibiotic resistance now ranks among the gravest medical problems of modern times . good germs bad germs tells the story of what went terribly wrong in our war on germs . it also offers a hopeful look into a future in which antibiotics will be designed and used more wisely and beyond that to a day when we may replace antibacterial drugs and cleansers with bacterial ones .