The Search Of New Generations Of Antibiotics
Subtitle: Concern for bacterial resistance in humans. Suggesting a shift in strategy-
Publisher: Progress International Verlag
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Wiesbaden, Germany
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 386
Description: The wide-scale routine use of antibiotics and its threatening  collateral damage. The consequence of our history of antibiotic over-use and misuse.
Table of contents: title: The consequence of our history of antibiotic over-use and misuse.; title: We’ve given bacteria powerful reasons for resistance building to suppress their action, to minimize their potentially harmful effects on us. Microbes have become resistant to multiple drugs. Resistance building by one organism strengthens resistance building by related organisms, making it more difficult to neutralize the unwanted action  on us  by not just one but by whole bacteria-clusters.  Decades of seemingly careless use  of antibiotics in primary treatment, as growth promoters in livestock-production and improve feed efficiency in contemporary intensive animal farming  is having its price….; title: This book expresses concern over the dwindling numbers of effective antibiotics and the fact that few new drugs are in development. It also suggests  a shift in strategy for the design of new generations of antibiotics.; title: While antibiotics can certainly still be lifesaving, we are becoming more aware of the risks they pose. More and  more study results arm us with information that may help the medical community push toward shorter antibiotic treatment courses and minimizing the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics