The resistance phenomenon in microbes and infectious disease vectors
Subtitle: implications for human health and strategies for containment : workshop summary
By: Stacey L. Knobler ... [et al.], editors.
Contributors: Knobler, Stacey.; Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Emerging Infections.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Drug resistance in microorganisms -- Congresses; Drug Resistance, Microbial -- Congresses; Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- prevention & control -- Congresses; Disease Vectors -- Congresses; Drug Resistance, Multiple -- Congresses; Insecticide Resistance -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Microbe resistance; title: 3. Vector resistance; title: 4. The economics of resistance; title: 5. Factors contributing to the emergence of drug resistance; title: 6. Emerging tools and technology for countering resistance; title: 7. Strategies to contain the development and consequences of resistance.