Resolving the antibiotic paradox
Subtitle: progress in understanding drug resistance and development of new antibiotics
By: edited by Barry P. Rosen and Shahriar Mobashery.
Contributors: Rosen, Barry P.; Mobashery, Shahriar.; Symposium on Resolving the Antibiotic Paradox: Progress in Drug Design and Resistance (1997 : Wayne State University)
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology ;; v. 456
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Drug resistance in microorganisms -- Congresses.; Drug Resistance, Microbial -- physiology -- congresses.; Antibiotics -- pharmacology -- congresses.; Drug Design -- congresses.
Genres: Congresses.; congresses.
Description: The title of this proceedings comes from the book The Antibiotic Paradox by Stuart B. Levy (Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1922), referring to the paradox that the more antibiotics are used to treat infectious diseases, the less effective they become. When antibiotics were first introduced, they were considered wonder drugs because they were so effective. But with time bacteria have become resistant to nearly all antibiotics, and resistance is spreading faster than new antibiotics are being developed. This book will identify the issues concerning resistance, as well as describe efforts to develop new drugs that overcome the problem of resistance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Proceedings of the Symposium on Resolving the Antibiotic Paradox: Progress in Drug Design and Resistance, held May 29, 1997, at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan"--T.p. verso.