Hunting the nightmare bacteria

Resource Information

The work Hunting the nightmare bacteria represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Hunting the nightmare bacteria

Statement of responsibility

produced by Raney Aronson, Missy Frederick, Rick Young ; written and directed by Rick Young

Title variation

Nightmare bacteria

Contributor

• Lyman, Will, 1948-
• WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
• American University (Washington, D.C.), School of Communication | Investigative Reporting Workshop
• Young, Rick

Director

• Young, Rick

Narrator

• Lyman, Will, 1948-

Producer

• American University (Washington, D.C.), School of Communication | Investigative Reporting Workshop
• WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

Screenwriter

• Young, Rick

Subject

• Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation
• Television series
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Bacteria
• Bacterial Infections -- epidemiology
• Disease Outbreaks
• Documentary films
• Documentary television programs
• Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
• Drug resistance in microorganisms
• Infection
• Nonfiction television programs
• Science television programs

Genre

• Documentary films
• Documentary television programs
• Nonfiction television programs
• Science television programs
• Television series
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

Frontline reporter David Hoffman investigates the alarming rise in hospitals, communities, and across the globe of untreatable infections. Fueled by decades of antibiotic overuse, the crisis has deepened as major drug companies have abandoned the development of new antibiotics. Without swift action, the miracle age of antibiotics could be coming to an end

Member of

• Frontline (Television program), Hunting the nightmare bacteria

Cataloging source

NjBwBT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Camera, Tim Grucza, Travis Fox ; editor, Anthony Szulc

Date time place

Originally broadcast as an episode of the television program by PBS Oct. 22, 2013; copyright help by WGBH Educational Foundation

Dewey number

616.07/1

Intended audience

TV rating: Not rated

Language note

Closed-captioned

LC call number

RB151

LC item number

.H86 2017

PerformerNote

Will Lyman, narrator

Runtime

60

Target audience

general

Technique

live action