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Antibiotics : current innovations and future trends /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sánchez, Sergio G. (Editor ), Demain, A. L. (Arnold L.), 1927- (Editor ), Bennett, Joan Wennstrom (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Norfolk, England : Caister Academic Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • What is an antibiotic? / Joan Wennstrom Bennett
  • Main applications of antibiotics / Biao Ren [and others].
  • Microorganisms producing antibiotics / János Bérdy
  • The need for new antibiotics / Arnold L. Demain and Sergio Sánchez
  • Tackling antibiotic resistance / Jaroslav Spizek and Vladimir Havlicek
  • Eradication of dormant pathogens / Kim Lewis, Brian Conlon and Michael LaFleur
  • Toxicity of antibacterial drugs / Steven J. Projan
  • Overuse of antibiotics: non-medical applications / Nelson Kardos
  • Antibiotics for emerging and re-emerging diseases / Kazuro Shiomi and Satoshi Ōmura
  • Endophytes as a potential source of new antibiotics / Silvia Guzmán-Trampe [and others]
  • Antibiotics from microorganisms from hot springs/geysers / Girish B. Mahajan.
  • New sources of antibiotics: caves / Naowarat Cheeptham and Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez
  • Animal venoms as natural resources of antimicrobials / Ramar Perumal Samy [and others]
  • New targets for antibacterial compounds / Lynn L. Silver
  • Novel antimicrobial and other bioactive metabolites obtained from silent gene clusters / Juan F. Martín and Paloma Liras
  • Combinatorial biosynthesis for antibiotic discover / Sung Ryeol Park and Yeo Joon Yoon
  • Lantibiotics and other antibacterial peptides / Margherita Sosio and Stefano Donadio
  • Antiviral compounds of natural origin / Patricia Veiga -Crespo, Miquel Viñas and Tomás G. Villa
  • New compounds with antibacterial activity
  • Patricia Veiga-Crespo [and others]
  • Use of antibiotic core structures to generate new and useful macrolide antibiotics / Prabhavathi Fernandes
  • Antibiotics in the pipeline / Hyunjun Park and Michael Thomas
  • Index
  • Colour plate.