Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance

• Päätekijä: Marcelo Tolmasky (auth)
• Muut tekijät: Jun Lin (auth), Marilyn C. Roberts (auth), Kunihiko Nishino (auth), Lixin Zhang (auth), Rustam I. Aminov (auth)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Sarja: Frontiers Research Topics
• Aiheet: Microbiology (non-medical); Metagenomics; Antibiotic resistance mechanisms; combination therapy; antibiotics; antibiotic resistance reservoirs
• Linkit: 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...