Overcoming resistance through novel drug targets
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Henry Stewart Talks
2009, 2009
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| Series: | Antibiotic resistance : from genes to global prevalence
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| Collection: | Henry Stewart Talks - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Urgent need for new antibiotics
- Why are so few antibiotics reaching the market
- Pharmaceutical companies leaving the research arena
- Targets
- Bacterial molecules (genomics)
- Problems with the genomic approach
- Bacteriophage
- Treatments and problems with bacteriophages
- Whole bacteria
- Conventional multiplying bacteria
- Non-culturable bacteria
- Non-multiplying bacteria
- Tuberculosis, bacterial endocarditis, catheter infections and prosthesis infections
- Ways of making new antibiotics against whole live bacteria
- Potential advantages and problems of making new antibiotics which kill non-multiplying and multiplying bacteria
- Standardization