Antibiotic resistance
Subtitle: understanding and responding to an emerging crisis
By: Karl Drlica, David S. Perlin
Contributors: Perlin, David
Publisher: FT Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780131387737; 9780132117388
Subjects: Drug resistance in microorganisms; Microbial Drug Resistance; Immunology; Innate Immunity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the resistance problem; title: Working with pathogens; title: A survey of antibiotics; title: Dosing to cure; title: Emergence of resistance; title: Movement of resistance genes among pathogens; title: Transmission of resistant disease; title: Surveillance; title: Making new antibiotics; title: Restricting antibiotic use and optimizing dosing; title: Influenza and antibiotic resistance; title: Avoiding resistant pathogens.