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Record Nr.

UNINA9910583461703321

Titolo

Functionalized nanomaterials for the management of microbial infection : a strategy to address microbial drug resistance / / edited by Rabah Boukherroub, Sabine Szunerits, Djamel Drider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : , : Elsevier, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-323-41737-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (339 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Micro and Nano Technologies Series

Disciplina

615.329

Soggetti

Antibiotics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Resistance to antibiotics and antimicrobial peptides / Y. Belguesmia, I. Kempf, N. Tison, K. Naghmouchi and D. Drider -- The role of the food chain in the spread of antimicrobial rseistance (AMR) / L. Ruiz and A. Alvarez-Ordóñez -- Penetrating the bacterial biofilm / E. Teirlinck, S.K. Samal, T. Coenye and K. Braeckmans -- Metal nanoparticles for microbial infections / B. Mordorski and A. Friedman -- Lipid-based nanopharmaceuticals in antimicrobial therapy / N. Škalko-Basnet and Ž. Vanić -- Organic polymeric nanomaterials as advanced tools in the fight against antibiotic-resistant infections / P.C. Balaure, D. Gudovan and I. Gudovan -- Bacteriocins and nanotechnology / L.M.T. Dicks, A.D.P. van Staden and B. Klumperman -- Graphene-microbial interactions / S. Szunerits and R. Boukherroub.