Antibacterial agents : chemistry, mode of action, mechanisms of resistance, and clinical applications /

• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Other Authors: Anderson, Rosaleen J.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• Subjects: Antibacterial agents.; Electronic books.

"Antibacterial agents act against bacterial infection either by killing the bacterium or by arresting its growth. They do this by targeting bacterial DNA and its associated processes, attacking bacterial metabolic processes including protein synthesis, or interfering with bacterial cell wall sy...