Antibiotic Resistance

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-12-803642-6
Verlag: ACADEMIC PRESS

Buch, Englisch, 436 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 903 g

Antibiotic Resistance: Mechanisms and New Antimicrobial Approaches discusses up-to-date knowledge in mechanisms of antibiotic resistance and all recent advances in fighting microbial resistance such as the applications of nanotechnology, plant products, bacteriophages, marine products, algae, insect-derived products, and other alternative methods that can be applied to fight bacterial infections.

Understanding fundamental mechanisms of antibiotic resistance is a key step in the discovery of effective methods to cope with resistance. This book also discusses methods used to fight antibiotic-resistant infection based on a deep understanding of the mechanisms involved in the development of the resistance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kon, Kateryna

Rai, Mahendra

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Mikrobiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Infektionskrankheiten
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie Biotechnologie: Mikrotechnologie, Nanobiotechnologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinische Mikrobiologie & Virologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Nanotechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Antibiotic Stewardship: Hospital Strategies to Curb Antibiotic Resistance2 Mechanisms of antibacterial resistance: shedding some light over these obscure processes?3 Signaling pathways sustaining antibiotic resistance4 Emerging drug resistance in bacterial enteric pathogens5 Carbapenem resistant gram-negative bacilli6 Antibiotic resistance: Can nanoparticles tackle the problem?7 Nanoarchitectonics used in anti-infective therapy8 Nanobiocomposites of metals as antimicrobial agents9 Nano/nitric oxide and antibiotic resistance10 Controlling bacterial antibiotic resistance using plant-derived compounds11 Essential oils: A natural alternative to antibiotics resistance12 Essential oil sensitivity of ESBL-producing Gram-negative bacteria13 Antimicrobial and antibiotic potentiating activity of essential oils from tropical medicinal herbs and spices14 Antimicrobial natural products against bacterial biofilms15 The potential use of bacteriophage therapy as a treatment option in a post antibiotic era16 Bacteriocins and its use for multidrug resistance bacterial control17 Marine natural products in fighting microbial infections18 Algae as a novel source of antimicrobial compounds: current and future perspectives

Über Autor(innen)

Rai, Mahendra
Prof. Mahendra Rai is a UGC Basic Science Research Faculty Fellow and former Head of the Department of Biotechnology at Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, India. He is currently a senior visiting professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Federal University of Piaui (UFPI), Brazil.

His areas of expertise include microbial biotechnology and nanobiotechnology, focusing on the green synthesis of metal nanoparticles using fungi and their applications as nanoantimicrobials against pathogenic microbes. His research is interdisciplinary, integrating microbial biotechnology with nanotechnology.

Professor Rai has received several prestigious awards, including the Father T.A. Mathias Award from the All India Association for Christian Higher Education and the Medini Award from the Government of India. He has participated in multiple international collaborations and has held visiting positions at various institutions, including the University of Geneva (Switzerland), Debrecen University (Hungary), and Nicolaus Copernicus University (Poland).

Kon, Kateryna
Dr. Kateryna Kon, MD, PhD, currently works at the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology at Kharkiv National Medical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine as an Associate Professor. Dr. Kon received the Best Young Scientist of Kharkiv Award in 2007. She has ten years of teaching and fifteen years of research experience. She is an editorial board member of six international peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Kon's scientific contributions include more than 100 publications, 6 books and 18 scientific articles. The main focus of Dr. Kon's research is antibiotic resistance in bacteria, coping with microbial resistance by plant essential oils and nanoparticles, microbiology of surgical and gynaecological infections, application of different statistical methods to analysis of biomedical data.