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Antibiotics - Current Innovations and Future Trends (Hardcover)
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Antibiotics - Current Innovations and Future Trends (Hardcover)
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The 'golden age' for antibiotic discovery, from 1940 until the
early 1970s, ushered in a new era in human- and animal-health and
the associated dramatic increase in human life expectancies. Indeed
the possibility of eradicating infectious disease seemed feasible.
However it soon became apparent that microorganisms wouldn't be
defeated so easily. Their weapon: antibiotic resistance. Today
microbial antibiotic resistance is rapidly exhausting our supply of
effective compounds and making the possibility of a global public
health disaster seems likely. The urgency of this situation has
spawned a plethora of new multi-disciplinary research initiatives
looking for novel antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents. In
this timely book respected international experts summarize the most
important research to provide a timely overview of the field.
Opening chapters define 'antibiotic', explain why we need new
compounds, outline the applications of antibiotics, both old and
new, and describe the producing microbes. These are followed by
chapters that cover antibiotic resistance, toxicity, overuse, new
antimicrobial sources, new targets, novel technologies for
antibiotic discovery (e.g. silent gene clusters), lantibiotics,
natural antivirals, new macrolide derivatives, and antibiotics in
the pipeline. This books is essential reading for everyone working
in antimicrobial research in academia, biotechnology companies, and
the pharmaceutical industry and a recommended volume for all
microbiology libraries.
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