Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues (40 page)

back to our children:
M. J. Blaser, “Science, medicine, and the future:
Helicobacter pylori
and gastric diseases,”
British Medical Journal
316 (1998): 1507–10.

EPILOGUE

ice cap in Greenland would melt:
For a comprehensive view of global warming for the nonscientist, see, for example: B. E. Johansen,
The Encyclopedia of Global Warming Science and Technology
, vols. 1 and 2 (Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Publishing, 2009); and for some solutions: M. Z. Jacobson and M. A. Dilucchi, “A path to sustainable energy by 2030,”
Scientific American
301 (2009): 58–65.

INDEX

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A Beautiful Mind

abscesses

acid

reflux

stomach

-suppressive therapies

adaptive immunity

adenocarcinoma

adrenaline

agriculture

antibiotics used in

growth promotion

invention of

algae

allergies

antibiotics and

food

gluten

H. pylori
and

penicillin

skin test

Allobaculum

ALSPAC study

American Thoracic Society

amino acids

amoxicillin

amphibiosis

ampicillin

anaerobic bacteria

ancestral populations

anemia

animals

antibiotics used in

as pathogen hosts

Antarctica

antibiotics

agricultural use

antibiotic winter

asthma and

autism and

brain development and

broad-spectrum

celiac disease and

development of

diabetes and

discovery of penicillin

early-life use and effects

estrogen and

in food

food allergies and

growth-promoting

heartburn and

height and

IBD and

narrow-spectrum

in newborns

obesity and

overuse of

in pregnancy and birth

prescription rates

reduced use of

resistance.
See
resistance, antibiotic

side effects

solutions

see also specific antibiotics

antigens

aphids

archaea

arsenic

asthma

antibiotics and

childhood

GERD and

H. pylori
and

Atherton, John

Atlanta

atomic bomb

atopic dermatitis

Augmentin

Australia

autism

antibiotics and

azithromycin

bacteria

antibiotic winter and

in basalt

beneficial

colonization

consortia

C-section and

development of antibiotics and

distinction between virus and

diversity

dual nature of
H. pylori

ecosystems

evolution of

food and

genes

gut

height and

immune system and

loss of friendly bacteria

marine

microbial world

newborns and

obesity and

overuse of antibiotics

pathogens

pregnancy and

probiotics

resistant

transfer during childbirth

see also
microbes;
specific bacteria and infections

bacteriophage

Bacteroides

Bangladesh

Barrett’s esophagus

Beard, Albertine

Benz, Karl

Bering Strait

beta-lactams

Bifidobacter

biofilms

birds

birth defects

Bitterroot Valley, Montana

Black Death, plague in Europe

Blaser, Genia

blood pressure

bloodstream

glucose

infections

Blustein, Jan

body mass index (BMI)

Bohnhoff, Marjorie

bone

infections

brain

role of gut microbes in early development

Brandt, Lawrence

Brazil

BRCA genes

breast cancer

breast development

breast milk

breath, bad

broad-spectrum drugs

Brussels

Buchnera

C. diff
infections

fecal microbiota transfer

CagA

Campylobacter

cancer

antibiotics and

BRCA genes and

DES and

stomach, and
H. pylori

see also specific cancers

carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE)

cecum

celiac disease

antibiotics and

H. pylori
and

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Cesarian section

diabetes and

obesity and

overreliance on

Chain, Ernst

cheating

chemotherapy

Chen, Yu

chickenpox

childbirth

antibiotic use in

Cesarean section

episiotomy

fever

microbe transfer during

children

acid reflux

antibiotics overused in

asthma

autistic

death rates

DES and thalidomide

diabetes

early-life antibiotic use and effects

H. pylori
in

height

high-fat diet

IBD

microbe transfer during childbirth

microbiome of

newborns and bacteria

obesity

reduced use of antibiotics in

rise of illness in

China

chloramphenicol

chlorination

Cho, Ilseung

cholera

cholesterol

ciprofloxacin

Civil War

clarithromycin

Clemente, Jose

Cleveland Clinic

climate

change

clindamycin

Clostridium

Clostridium difficile
(
C.
diff
) infection

cognition

colon

C. diff
infection

cancer

colostrum

commensalism

competition

contingency microbes

Cooley, Fred

cooperation

co-trimoxazole

cough

Cox, Laurie

CRE

Crohn’s disease

crowd diseases

Darwin, Charles

death

cancer

Deinococcus radiodurans
, and radioactivity

Delftia acidovorans
, in gold mining

dendritic cells

Denmark

dentists

DES (diethylstilbestrol)

DEXA scans

diabetes

adult-onset (type 2)

antibiotics and

C-section and

gestational

juvenile

diagnostics

distinction between viruses and bacterial infections

diarrheal illnesses

digestion

digoxin

diphtheria

diversity, microbial

loss of

diverticulitis

DNA

doctors

C-section rates

malpractice

prescription rates

responsible prescription of antibiotics

salaries

Domagk, Gerhard

Dominguez Bello, Maria Gloria

doxycycline

Dunne, Jessica

DuraSTAT

dysentery

E. coli

ear infections

Ebola

ecosystems, microbial

eczema

Ehrlich, Paul

encephalitis

England

Engstrand, Lars

Enterococcus faecalis, faecium

enzymes

epidemics

episiotomy

erythromycin

esophagus

acid reflux

cancer

estrobolome

estrogen

antibiotics and

eukaryotes

Europe

evolution

extinctions

extremophiles

eye infections, in newborns

family size

Faroe Islands

FatSTAT

fecal contamination

fecal microbiota transplantation (FMI)

Feigenbaum, Rardi

fermentation

fever

fiber

Finland, diabetes in

Firmicutes

Fleming, Alexander

Florey, Howard

fluoroquinolones

food

allergies

antibiotics in

baby

digestion

gluten-free

high-fat

improved nutrition

lack of

microbes and

organic

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Ford, Henry

France

Frieden, Tom

fungi

game theory

gangliosides

gastritis

H. pylori
and

GCLO.
See Helicobacter pylori

genes

ancient

microbial

variant

genomics

geology

GERD (Gastroesophageal reflux disease)

asthma and

Germany

germ-free mice

germ theory

Ghana, obesity in

ghrelin

Giardia

gluten allergy

Gondwana

gonorrhea

Gordon, Jeff

Gould, Stephen Jay

Greenland, ice cap in

growth promotion

Guatamala, Santa Maria Cauque

Guerrero, Isabel

gut

bacteria

-brain interactions

infections

loss of friendly bacteria

normal flora

probiotics

role of bacteria in pregnancy

Haemophilus influenzae

Hantavirus

Hawaii

hay fever

heart

disease

valve infections

heartburn

height

antibiotics and

growth spurt

H. pylori
and

increase in

microbes and

Helicobacter pylori

asthma and

celiac disease and

disappearance of

discovered as a pathogen

dual nature of

esophageal disease and

gastritis and

height and

immunity and

proteins

reintroduction of, into children

stomach (gastric) cancer and

transmission

ulcers and

Heliobacter
species, other than
pylori

hepatitis

herpes virus

herpes zoster

high blood pressure

HIV/AIDS

Homo sapiens

Hoover, Robert

horizontal transmission

hormones

estrogen and antibiotics

hospitals

C-section rates

infections

profits

hosts

animals as

Human Microbiome Project (HMP)

hunter-gatherers

hygiene hypothesis

immunity

adaptive

development of

H. pylori
and

hygiene hypothesis

innate

microbial

India

Industrial Revolution

infectious diseases

antibiotic-resistant

antibiotic winter and

development of antibiotics

epidemic

modern plagues

pathogens and

see also specific diseases

Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)

infertility

inflammation

beneficial

H. pylori
and

stomach

inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

antibiotics and

influenza

innate immunity

insects

insulin

insurance

intestines

C. diff
infection

IBD

ulcers

see also
gut

Inuit

irritable bowel syndrome

isoniazid

Italy

Japan

Kanner, Leo

Kelsey, Francis

Kessler, David

keystone species

Khoruts, Alexander

kidneys

kissing

Knight, Rob

Koch, Robert

Komodo dragon

La Benz, Joachim

lactobacilli

Lactobacillus

Lanetti, Ricky

latency

Laurasia

Lebwohl, Ben

leptin

Ley, Ruth

Lillis, Peggy

Lister, Joseph

Livanos, Alexandra

liver

cancer

Ludvigsson, Jonas

lungs

asthma

cancer

Lyme disease

lymphocytes

lysozyme

macrolides

malaria

malpractice

Manitoba, Canada

Marburg virus

Marianas Trench

Marild, Karl

Marmor, Michael

Marshall, Barry

mastoiditis

Mata, Leonardo

McPhee, John

measles

meconium

Mediterranean diet

memory

meningitis

menstruation

metabolism

effect of antibiotics on

MetaHit consortium

metronidazole

Mexico

microbes

antibiotic winter and

consortia

C-section and

diversity

dual nature of
H. pylori

ecosystems

epidemic

evolution of

fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT)

food and

genes

gut

height and

human

immune system and

marine

obesity and

pathogens