Z700894
Sigma
Multiple Drug Resistant Bacteria
| ISBN-10: | 1-898486-45-X |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-898486-45-9 |
Description
| General description | This book focuses on the problem posed by resistant organisms: multi-resistance. Resistance and multi-resistance arise as consequences of a complex set of biological, social and economic forces. Bacteria gain multi-resistance in a number of ways, gathering individual resistance genes in single genetic elements, activating responses to environmental stress, and growing in biofilms. Two of the most dangerous pathogenic organisms (methicillin-resistant S. aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci) pose a threat because they are always multi-resistant are covered. Chapter 7 is devoted to explain a different way to look into the evolution of resistance and a way to search for new antimicrobial drugs. |
Properties
| publication info | C. Amabile-Cuevas, ed., Horizon Scientific Press, 2003, 182 pp., hard cover |
Table Of Contents
| Table of Contents | Chapter 1 The Rise of Antibiotic Resistance Chapter 2 Gathering of Resistance Genes in Gram-Negative Bacteria: An Overview Chapter 3 Evolution of Antimicrobial Multi-Resistance in Gram-Positive Bacteria Chapter 4 Multiple Resistance Mediated by Individual Genetic Loci Chapter 5 Biofilms and Bacterial Multi-Resistance Chapter 6 Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci and Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Chapter 7 Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Selection of Antibiotic Resistance |
