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Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. From one of the most acclaimed writers of nonfiction for children, Invincible Microbe illuminates the seemingly unstoppable killer that's been haunting us for centuries: tuberculosis. Well-researched and including over 100 archival photos and prints, this compelling story of a deadly germ is a must-read...read more
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9780606368285 | Turtleback Books, July 7, 2015, cover price $22.10 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
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9781622930852 | Jasmine Health Pub, October 1, 2014, cover price $27.94 | About this edition: Discusses tuberculosis and other drug-resistant diseases, including risk factors, causes, symptoms, history, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and coping.
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9781622930869 | Jasmine Health Pub, October 1, 2014, cover price $12.88
Product Description: When students at a school become sick, it becomes clear a serious outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) is occurring. Can doctors prevent its spread, and can they minimize the harm that is being caused by a rare strain of the disease? This book looks at the topics of health and disease to explain how pathogens, such as bacteria and viruses, can affect our health and pass from person to person...read more
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9781432976095 | Not Applicable, July 1, 2013, cover price $9.49 | About this edition: When students at a school become sick, it becomes clear a serious outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) is occurring.
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9781432976033, titled "Health and Disease: Investigating A TB Outbreak: Investigating a TB Outbreak" | Heinemann/Raintree, July 1, 2013, cover price $33.50 | About this edition: When students at a school become sick, it becomes clear a serious outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) is occurring.
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9780618535743 | 1 edition (Clarion Books, July 10, 2012), cover price $18.99
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9780544455948 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, July 7, 2015), cover price $10.99
Product Description: Tuberculosis is a serious infection caused most commonly by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium or one of three other organisms of the Mycobacterium genus. Tuberculosis primarily affects the lungs, but the infection can attack any part of the body...read more
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9781617530173 | 2 edition (Chelsea House Pub, September 30, 2011), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Tuberculosis is a serious infection caused most commonly by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium or one of three other organisms of the Mycobacterium genus.
Product Description: Tuberculosis is a highly infectious disease that can be very hard to treat. What used to be considered a very treatable disease is now one that has become drug-resistant. Learn about tuberculosis and other diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, such as MRSA, malaria, and influenza, in this current and informative book...read more
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9780766033436 | Enslow Pub Inc, September 1, 2010, cover price $35.94 | About this edition: Tuberculosis is a highly infectious disease that can be very hard to treat.
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9781936088065 | 1 edition (Bearport Pub Co Inc, August 1, 2010), cover price $25.27
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9780761446118 | Marshall Cavendish Corp, September 1, 2009, cover price $32.79
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9780761439790 | 1 edition (Benchmark Books, September 1, 2009), cover price $32.79 | About this edition: This highly readable and extremely helpful series provides young readers with all they need to know about a variety of medical conditions.
Product Description: One of the deadliest diseases healthcare workers fight today, tuberculosis (often called TB) infects the lungs of one-third of the world's population and kills about 2 million people a year. While scientific breakthroughs brought this bacterial disease under control during the 1960s to the 1980s, it was never completely eliminated...read more
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9780822591900 | Twenty First Century Books, December 15, 2007, cover price $33.26 | About this edition: One of the deadliest diseases healthcare workers fight today, tuberculosis (often called TB) infects the lungs of one-third of the world's population and kills about 2 million people a year.
9780761316244 | Twenty First Century Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $33.26 | About this edition: Discusses the history of tuberculosis and its resurgence in the latter part of the twentieth century within the United States, and examines case histories, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease.
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9781590189689 | Lucent Books, November 3, 2006, cover price $39.90 | About this edition: Explains what tuberculosis is, describes its symptoms and how it is spread, discusses how a cure for the disease was found, and explores the reasons why this disease is still a killer in underdeveloped countries.
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9780766024816 | Enslow Pub Inc, March 1, 2006, cover price $33.27 | About this edition: Describes what tuberculosis is, how it is treated, how it has affected society in the past, and the current measures being used to try to wipe out the disease, and tells about famous people who have had tuberculosis.
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9780431188522 | New edition (Gardners Books, March 4, 2005), cover price $15.90 | About this edition: Providing information that does not patronize, over-simplify or judge, this series examines social phenomena that are difficult or harmful.
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9781403451477 | Heinemann/Raintree, April 1, 2004, cover price $32.86 | About this edition: Provides an overview of tuberculosis, describing what it is, the history of the disease, what it is like to live with tuberculosis, and some of the available treatments.
Discusses the history of tuberculosis, including the researchers looking for a cure, the effects on the body, transmission, and the treatment of the disease.
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9780791073094 | Chelsea House Pub, April 1, 2003, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Discusses the history of tuberculosis, including the researchers looking for a cure, the effects on the body, transmission, and the treatment of the disease.
Looks at the history, diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing threat of tuberculosis, which continues to be the most deadly infectious disease in the world.
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9781560069317 | Lucent Books, January 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Looks at the history, diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing threat of tuberculosis, which continues to be the most deadly infectious disease in the world.
A close-up look at turberculosis discusses this potentially fatal illness, once thought a disease of the past but that has reemerged with new drug-resistant strains and that may affect about one third of the world's population, particularly in urban areas.
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9780802783387 | Walker & Co, December 1, 1994, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Describes the history of tuberculosis, explains why it has returned after being nearly eliminated, and discusses the prevention and treatment of the disease
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9780802783394 | Walker & Co, December 1, 1994, cover price $14.85 | About this edition: Describes the history of tuberculosis, explains why it has returned after being nearly eliminated, and discusses the prevention and treatment of the disease
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9780894904622 | Enslow Pub Inc, January 1, 1994, cover price $27.94 | About this edition: Discusses tuberculosis and its symptoms, and explains how the disease is spread, how it is treated, and how it can be prevented
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