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Antimicrobial Compounds Current Strategies and New Alternatives /

Since penicillin and salvarsan were discovered, a number of new drugs to combat infectious diseases have been developed, but at the same time, the number of multi-resistant microorganism strains is increasing. Thus, the design of new and effective antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal agents will...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Villa, Tomás G. (Editor ), Veiga-Crespo, Patricia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Strategies for the design and discovery of novel antibiotics using genetic engineering and genome mining
  • X-ray and Neutron Scattering Foundations for the Research in Antimicrobials
  • Antibacterial, Antiviral and Antifungal Activity of Essential Oils: Mechanisms and Applications
  • New antimicrobial agents of plant origin
  • Advances in beta-lactam antibiotics
  • The Cornerstone of Nucleic Acid-affecting Antibiotics in Bacteria
  • Genetic analysis and manipulation of polyene antibiotic gene clusters as a way to produce more effective antifungal compounds
  • Enzybiotics: The rush towards prevention and control of multi-resistant bacteria (MRB)
  • New cell wall-affecting antifungal antibiotics
  • Perspectives in the research on Antimicrobial peptides
  • Glycopeptides and bacterial cell walls.