Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance

• मुख्य लेखक: Marcelo Tolmasky (auth)
• अन्य लेखक: Jun Lin (auth), Marilyn C. Roberts (auth), Kunihiko Nishino (auth), Lixin Zhang (auth), Rustam I. Aminov (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• श्रृंखला: Frontiers Research Topics
• विषय: Microbiology (non-medical); Metagenomics; Antibiotic resistance mechanisms; combination therapy; antibiotics; antibiotic resistance reservoirs
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Antibiotics represent one of the most successful forms of therapy in medicine. But the efficiency of antibiotics is compromised by the growing number of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Antibiotic resistance, which is implicated in elevated morbidity and mortality rates as well as in the increased tr...