Antibiotic resistance : origins, evolution, selection and spread /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Symposium on Antibiotic Resistance: Origins, Evolution, Selection, and Spread
Other Authors: Chadwick, Derek, Goode, Jamie
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester ; New York : J. Wiley, 1997.
Series:Ciba Foundation symposium ; 207.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Antibiotic resistance : an ecological imbalance
  • Origins, acquisition and dissemination of antibiotic resistance determinants
  • The relationship between erythromycin consumption and resistance in Finland
  • The contribution of antibiotic use on the frequency of antibiotic resistance in hospitals
  • Impact of antibiotic use in animal feeding on resistance of bacterial pathogens in humans
  • The effect of monitoring of antibiotic use of decreasing antibiotic resistance in the hospital
  • The antibiotic selective process : concentration-specific amplification of low-level resistant populations
  • The within-host population dynamics of antibacterial chemotherapy : conditions for the evolution of resistance
  • The cost of antibiotic resistance - from the perspective of a bacterium
  • The evolution of β-lactamases
  • Molecular evolution of multiply-antibiotic-resistant staphylococci
  • Mobile gene cassettes and integrons : moving antibiotic resistance genes' in Gram-negative bacteria
  • Genetic mobility and distribution of tetracycline resistance determinants
  • Epidemiological factors influencing the emergence of antimicrobial resistance
  • Summary