Bacterial resistance to antimicrobials
By: edited by Richard G. Wax ... [et al.]
Contributors: Wax, Richard G., 1934-
Edition: 2nd ed
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780849391903
Subjects: Drug resistance in microorganisms
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Microbial drug resistance: a historical perspective / William C. Summers; title: Ecology of antibiotic resistance genes / Abigail A. Salyers, Nadja Shoemaker, and David Schlesinger; title: Global response systems that confer resistance / Paul F. Miller and Philip N. Rather; title: Multidrug efflux pumps: structure, mechanism, and inhibition / Olga Lomovskaya ... [et al.]; title: Mechanisms of aminoglycoside antibiotic resistance / Gerard D. Wright; title: Resistance to [beta]-lactam antibiotics mediated by [beta]-lactamases : structure, mechanism, and evolution / Jooyoung Cha, Lakshmi P. Kotra, and Shahriar Mobashery; title: Target modification as a mechanism of antimicrobial resistance / David C. Hooper; title: Antibiotic permeability / Harry Taber; title: Genetic methods for detecting bacterial resistance genes / Ad C. Fluit; title: Evolution and epidemiology of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci / Christopher Gerard Dowson and Krzysztof Trzcinski; title: Antimicrobial resistance in the enterococcus / George M. Eliopoulos; title: Methicillin resistance in staphylococcus aureus / Keeta S. Gilmore, Michael S. Gilmore, and Daniel F. Sahm; title: Mechanism of drug resistance in mycobacterium tuberculosis / Alex S. Pym and Stewart T. Cole; title: Antibiotic resistance in enterobacteria / Nafsika H. Georgopapadakou; title: Resistance as a worldwide problem / Paul Shears; title: Public health responses to antimicrobial resistance in outpatient and inpatient settings / Cindy R. Friedman and Arjun Srinivasan; title: Antibacterial drug discovery in the 21st century / Steven J. Projan