Understanding bacteria [videorecording] / a presentation of Discovery Networks, in association with Cronkite/Ward ; producer/writer, Marijo Dowd.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 11931; | Films for the HumanitiesPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2002, 1997Description: 1 videodisc (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 589.9 UND
Production credits:
  • Photography, Foster Wiley ; editor, Robert Zakin ; narrator, Jane Curtin ; music, Fred Karns.
Participants: Narrated by Jane Curtin.Summary: "How do benign bacteria work? How are infectious bacteria fought? And how are scientists adapting both types of bacteria to good - or evil - uses? This program answers those questions through the observations and insights of Stanley Falkow, Fred Tenover, and other specialists. The role of E. coli in digestion, the relationship between H. pylori and ulcers, medical waste, the exploitation of anthrax as a weapon, and the discovery of extraterrestrial bacteria are all considered."--Container.
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Originally broadcast on the Discovery Channel in 1997.

Participants: Narrated by Jane Curtin.

Photography, Foster Wiley ; editor, Robert Zakin ; narrator, Jane Curtin ; music, Fred Karns.

"How do benign bacteria work? How are infectious bacteria fought? And how are scientists adapting both types of bacteria to good - or evil - uses? This program answers those questions through the observations and insights of Stanley Falkow, Fred Tenover, and other specialists. The role of E. coli in digestion, the relationship between H. pylori and ulcers, medical waste, the exploitation of anthrax as a weapon, and the discovery of extraterrestrial bacteria are all considered."--Container.

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