Overview
- A special chapter that addresses the issues on strategies to limit antimicrobial resistance propagation will be included in this volume
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century (EIDC)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Antimicrobial resistance can develop in any type of microbe (germ). Microbes can develop resistance to specific medicines. A common misconception is that a person’s body becomes resistant to specific drugs. However, it is microbes, not people that become resistant to the drugs. Drug resistance happens when microbes develop ways to survive the use of medicines meant to kill or weaken them. If a microbe is resistant to many drugs, treating the infections it causes can become difficult or even impossible. Someone with an infection that is resistant to a certain medicine can pass that resistant infection to another person. In this way, a hard-to-treat illness can be spread from person to person. In some cases, the illness can lead to serious disability or even death.
This comprehensive, up-to-date volume aims to define issues and potential solutions to the challenges of antimicrobial resistance. The chapter authors are leading international experts on antimicrobial resistance among a variety of bacteria (Streptococcus pneumoniae, enteroccoci, staphylococci, gram-negative bacilli, mycobacteria species) viruses (HIV, herpesviruses), and fungi (Candida species, fusarium etc.). The chapters will explore the molecular mechanisms of drug resistance, the immunology and epidemiology of resistance strains, clinical implications and implications on research and lack thereof, and prevention and future directions. This volume will also describe the steps that researchers are taking to develop molecular methods for detecting resistance; develop drugs and other means to deal with newly-resistant organisms. A special chapter to address the issues on strategies to limit antimicrobial resistance propagation will be included in this volume.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Antimicrobial Resistance and Implications for the 21st Century
Editors: I. W. Fong, Karl Drlica
Series Title: Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72418-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-72417-1Published: 24 October 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-72418-8Published: 15 November 2007
Series ISSN: 1573-4684
Series E-ISSN: 2627-5872
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 408
Topics: Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Virology, Epidemiology, Public Health