Novel antimicrobial agents and strategies /

• Other Authors: Phoenix, David, 1966- (Editor), Harris, Frederick (Research fellow) (Editor), Dennison, Sarah R. (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, [2015]
• Subjects: Anti-infective agents > Development.; Disinfection and disinfectants.; Sterilization.; Anti-Infective Agents.; Drug Resistance, Microbial.; Drug Design.; MEDICAL / Forensic Medicine; MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine; MEDICAL / Public Health; Anti-infective agents.; Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

• The problem of microbial drug resistance
• Conventional antibiotics
• revitalized by new agents
• Developing novel bacterial targets: carbonic anhydrases as antibacterial drug targets
• Magainins
• a model for development of eukaryotic antimicrobial peptides (amps)
• Antimicrobial peptides from prokaryotes
• Peptidomimetics as antimicrobial agents
• Synthetic biology and therapies for infectious diseases
• Nano-antimicrobials based on metals
• Natural products as antimicrobial agents
• an update
• Photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy
• The antimicrobial effects of ultrasound
• Antimicrobial therapy based on antisense agents
• New delivery systems
• liposomes for pulmonary delivery of antibacterial drugs.