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

• Pubblicazione: Chichester ; ; New York, : Wiley, 1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.01; 616.014; 616/.01
• Soggetto topico: Drug resistance in microorganisms
• Altri autori: ChadwickDerek GoodeJamie
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Antibiotic resistance
• ISBN: 1-282-45500-1; 9786612455001; 0-470-51535-X; 0-470-51536-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829877703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 207.