Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues

Martin Blaser is the director of the Human Microbiome Program at New York University and the author of Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues. He has studied the role of bacteria in human disease for more than thirty years. He is the George and Muriel Singer Professor of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology at the New York University School of Medicine, was the president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and has held major advisory roles at the National Institutes of Health. His revolutionary book reports on trail-blazing research while revealing the damage that overuse of antibiotics is doing to our health. National Affairs Series.