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Antibiotic resistance : understanding and responding to an emerging crisis /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Drlica, Karl
Other Authors: Perlin, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Drug resistance in microorganisms.
Drug Resistance, Microbial > immunology.
Immunity, Innate.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the resistance problem
  • Working with pathogens
  • A survey of antibiotics
  • Dosing to cure
  • Emergence of resistance
  • Movement of resistance genes among pathogens
  • Transmission of resistant disease
  • Surveillance
  • Making new antibiotics
  • Restricting antibiotic use and optimizing dosing
  • Influenza and antibiotic resistance
  • Avoiding resistant pathogens