Antibiotics: current innovations and future trends

by Bennett, Joan Wennstrom Demain, A. L., (Arnold L.) Sánchez, Sergio G.

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Full title :Antibiotics : current innovations and future trends / edited by Sergio Sánchez and Arnold L. Demain ; contributors, Joan Wennstrom Bennett [and forty-eight others].

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Publication Date:©2015

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Publisher(s):Caister Academic Press
Place of Publication:Norfolk, England
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

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Description:1 online resource (450 pages) : : illustrations, tables

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ISBN:9781908230553, 190823055X, 1908230541, 9781908230546
oclc:ocn896842822
LC Classification:RM267
Dewey Decimal:615.329

Contributors -- Preface -- What is an antibiotic? / Joan Wennstrom Bennett -- Main applications of antibiotics / Biao Ren [and others]. -- Microorganisms producing antibiotics / János Bérdy -- The need for new antibiotics / Arnold L. Demain and Sergio Sánchez -- Tackling antibiotic resistance / Jaroslav Spizek and Vladimir Havlicek -- Eradication of dormant pathogens / Kim Lewis, Brian Conlon and Michael LaFleur -- Toxicity of antibacterial drugs / Steven J. Projan -- Overuse of antibiotics: non-medical applications / Nelson Kardos -- Antibiotics for emerging and re-emerging diseases / Kazuro Shiomi and Satoshi Ōmura -- Endophytes as a potential source of new antibiotics / Silvia Guzmán-Trampe [and others] -- Antibiotics from microorganisms from hot springs/geysers / Girish B. Mahajan.

New sources of antibiotics: caves / Naowarat Cheeptham and Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez -- Animal venoms as natural resources of antimicrobials / Ramar Perumal Samy [and others] -- New targets for antibacterial compounds / Lynn L. Silver -- Novel antimicrobial and other bioactive metabolites obtained from silent gene clusters / Juan F. Martín and Paloma Liras -- Combinatorial biosynthesis for antibiotic di…