Handbook of Antimicrobial Resistance

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Berghuis, Albert (Editor), Matlashewski, Greg (Editor), Wainberg, Mark A. (Editor), Sheppard, Donald (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Drug resistance.; Biomedicine.; Drug Resistance.

This is a comprehensive tool covering all manifestations of antimicrobial resistance, with viral, bacterial, parasitical and fungal resistance each given a dedicated section. The underlining molecular mechanisms, which depend not only on the microbe, but on the specific drug (target), are highly div...

Table of Contents:

• Bacteria
• Origins of antibiotic resistance (Resistome)
• Dissemination of antibiotic resistance
• Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance.-Strategies for combating antibiotic resistance.- Multiple-drug-resistant bacteria.- Resistant Tuberculosis
• MRSA.- Fungi
• Microevolution of drug resistance.- Environmental induction of azole resistance in medical molds
• Echinocandin resistance in medically relevant fungi
• Role of drug efflux in azole resistance.- Parasites.- Drug-resistant Leishmania
• Drug resistance in Helminth infections.- Drug resistance in Malaria
• Drug resistance in schistosome infections.- Drug resistance in trypanosome infections.- HIV.- Resistance to RT inhibitors.- Resistance to Integrase Inhibitors.- Resistance to Entry inhibitors.- Resistance Testing.- Virology
• Resistance to viral protease inhibitors: The substrate envelope.- Resistance to new Direct-Acting-Antivirals against HCV
• HBV Resistance.- Resistance to antiherpetic drugs
• Influenza Resistance.