Antibiotic resistance : causes and risk factors, mechanisms and alternatives /
Adriel R. Bonilla and Kaden P. Muniz, editors
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009
- xvii, 527 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
- Pharmacology : research, safety testing and regulation series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The phenomenon of antibiotic resistance in an evolutionary perspective / Roberto Manfredi -- Antibiotic resistance and probiotics : roles, mechanisms, and evidence / Min-Tze Liong ... [et al.] -- When good bugs fight bad : designing probiotics to control antibiotic resistant'superbugs' / Roy D. Sleator -- Modification of the bacterial phenotype as an approach to counter the emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogens / Peter W. Taylor, Patricia Bernal & Andrea Zelmer -- Performance to antibiotics in Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus agalactiae, and Enterococcus spp. / Antonio Sorlozano ... [et al.] -- Microbiological and pharmacological principles of recent antibiotic therapy / Cristina Carrasco ... [et al.] -- Bacteriophage therapies and enzybiotics : novel solutions to antibiotic resistance / Noemie Manuelle Dorval Courchesne, Albert Parisien and Christopher Q. Lan -- Application of computational methods to study antibiotic resistance mechanisms : Fluoroquinolone resistance as a case study / Sergio Madurga ... [et al.] -- Energetics of MDR microbial cells / Wache Yves -- Low impact of OmpC and OmpF on susceptibility to antibiotics in clinical isolates of Escherichia coli producers of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases / A. Sorlozano ... [et al.] Antibiotic resistance in mariculture environments of China / Jingyi Zhao and Hongyue Dang -- Antibiotic resistance as a method for determining sources of fecal pollution in water / Alexandria K. Graves and Charles Hagedorn -- Genetic regulation, physiology, assessment and inhibition of efflux pumps responsible for multi-drug resistant phenotypes of bacterial pathogens / L. Amaral ... [et al.] -- Genetic and phenotypic characterization of drug-resistant Macybacterium Tuberculosis isolates / Maysaa El Sayed Zaki -- Tracking down a new putative drug target for osteoporosis : structure of an essential region of the proton translocation channel of H+-VO-ATPase / Afonso M.S. Duarte and Marcus A. Hemminga -- Antibiotic resistance in food lactic acid bacteria / Giorgio Giraffa -- Current status of antibiotic resistance in lactic acid bacteria / Leon M.T. Dicks ... [et al.] -- Nanobiotics to combat bacterial drug resistance / Sampath C. Abeylath and Edward Turos -- Veterinary antibiotics and their possible impact on resistant bacteria in the environment / Nicole Kemper