Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance
1. Edition November 2011
224 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
This book, which is the translated version of a Swedish book, combines a general introduction of a variety of antibiotics with a more in-depth discussion of resistance. The focus on resistance in learning about antibiotics will help future scientists recognize the problem antibiotics resistance poses for medicinal and drug-related fields, and perhaps trigger more research and discoveries to fight antibiotic resistant strains.
Current overviews of the topic are included, along with specific discussions on the individual mechanisms (betalactams, glycopeptides, aminoglycosides, etc) used in various antibacterial agents and explanations of how resistances to those develop. Methods for counteracting resistance development in bacteria are discussed as well.
2. Distribution of Antibiotics.
3. Sulfonamides and Trimethoprim.
4. Betalactams.
5. Glycopeptides.
6. Aminoglycosides.
7. Further Antibiotics Interfering with Bacterial Protein
Synthesis.
8. Quinolones.
9. Antibacterial Agents that are not Related to the Large
Antibiotic Families.
10. Mechanisms for the Horizontal Spread of Antibiotic
Resistance Among Bacterial.
11. How to Handle Resistance Against Antibiotics?
antibiotics. It fits nicely in the pocket of a laboratory coat and
could be carried around by physicians. It concludes with a serious
message -- that we have enjoyed the use of antibiotics on a "loan
from nature," and this loan is expiring with a "threat of
foreclosure." (Doody's, 6 April 2012)
