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The resistance phenomenon in microbes and infectious disease vectors : implications for human health and strategies for containment : workshop summary /

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:The Resistance phenomenon in microbes and infectious disease vectors (Print)
Corporate Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Emerging Infections
Other Authors: Knobler, Stacey
Format: Map Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Drug Resistance, Microbial > Congresses.
Communicable Diseases, Emerging > prevention & control > Congresses.
Disease Vectors > Congresses.
Drug Resistance, Multiple > Congresses.
Insecticide Resistance > Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Microbe resistance
  • 3. Vector resistance
  • 4. The economics of resistance
  • 5. Factors contributing to the emergence of drug resistance
  • 6. Emerging tools and technology for countering resistance
  • 7. Strategies to contain the development and consequences of resistance.