Antimicrobials, Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiofilm Strategies and Activity Methods

• Other Authors: Kırmusaoğlu, Sahra (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: IntechOpen 2019
• Subjects: Pharmacology; antibiotics, natural products, screening, biofilms, cultural heritage, streptomyces
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

To prevent bacterial adherence, invasion and infection, antimicrobials such as antibiotics are being used and vastly researched nowdays. Several factors such as natural selection, mutations in genes, the presence of efflux pumps, impermeability of the cell wall, structural changes in enzymes and rec...