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Record Nr.

UNINA9910840664703321

Titolo

Antibiotic resistance [[electronic resource] ] : origins, evolution, selection, and spread

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester ; ; New York, : Wiley, 1997

ISBN

1-282-45500-1

9786612455001

0-470-51535-X

0-470-51536-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 207

Altri autori (Persone)

ChadwickDerek

GoodeJamie

Disciplina

616.01

616.014

616/.01

Soggetti

Drug resistance in microorganisms

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Editors: Derek J. Chadwick (organizer) and Jamie Goode"--P. v.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE: ORIGINS, EVOLUTION, SELECTION AND SPREAD; Contents; Participants; Antibiotic resistance: an ecological imbalance; Origins, acquisition and dissemination of antibiotic resistance determinants; The relationship between erythromycin consumption and resistance in Finland; The contribution of antibiotic use on the frequency of antibiotic resistance in hospitals; Impact of antibiotic use in animal feeding on resistance of bacterial pathogens in humans; The effect of monitoring of antibiotic use on decreasing antibiotic resistance in the hospital

The antibiotic selective process: concentration-specific amplification of low-level resistant populationsThe within-host population dynamics of antibacterial chemotherapy: conditions for the evolution of resistance; The cost of antibiotic resistance-from the perspective of a bacterium; The evolution of b-lactamases; Molecular evolution of multiply= antibiotic-resistant staphylococci; Mobile gene cassettes and integrons: moving antibiotic resistance genes in Gram-negative bacteria; Genetic mobility and distribution of tetracycline resistance determinants



Epidemiological factors influencing the emergence of antimicrobial resistanceSummarv; Index of contributors; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Antibiotic Resistance: Origins, Evolution, Selection and Spread Chairman: Stuart B. Levy 1997 Over the last 50 years, the rapid increase in the use of antibiotics, not only in people, but also in animal husbandry and agriculture, has delivered a selection unprecedented in the history of evolution. Consequently, society is facing one of its gravest public health problems-the emergence of infectious bacteria with resistance to many, and in some cases all, available antibiotics. This book brings together a multidisciplinary group of experts to discuss this problem. It begins by examining the orig