Overview
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Hans Zähner
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Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Tübingen, West Germany
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Werner K. Maas
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New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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- Hans Zähner, Werner K. Maas
Pages 1-6
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- Hans Zähner, Werner K. Maas
Pages 7-14
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- Hans Zähner, Werner K. Maas
Pages 15-33
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- Hans Zähner, Werner K. Maas
Pages 34-61
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- Hans Zähner, Werner K. Maas
Pages 62-96
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- Hans Zähner, Werner K. Maas
Pages 97-113
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- Hans Zähner, Werner K. Maas
Pages 114-122
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Back Matter
Pages 123-125
About this book
This book is based on Hans Zahner's Biologie der Antibiotica, published in 1965. There is a vast literature on antibiotics, covering chemical, phar macological, and clinical aspects. We have made no attempt to cover this literature comprehensively. Our effort is directed toward discuss ing antibiotics as biological agents. They are substances produced by living cells, yet they are able to inhibit the growth of living cells - in many cases even the cells that produce them. We have taken this apparent biological paradox as our point of departure and have tried to look in this light at the production of antibiotics and at their mode of action. In a sense antibiotics are comparable to mutations. They are useful as tools in the study of metabolism by blocking specific reactions. At the same time their mode of origin and their effects on the organisms that produce them are interesting problems in their own right. We have tried to incorporate both aspects into our consider ations. This little book, designed for biology students and medical stu dents, provides them with a framework into which to fit more specialized and detailed information on antibiotics.
Authors and Affiliations
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Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Tübingen, West Germany
Hans Zähner
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New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
Werner K. Maas