Antibiotics in laboratory medicine
Presents the fundamental in vitro aspects of antibiotics, from the screening of new agents to their assay in various body fluids. Each chapter serves as a compendium of available, scientifically sound knowledge on its given subject.
As antibiotics become deactivated through resistance and emerging bacterial diseases Christopher Walsh offers new insights into antibiotic modification and design. He shows how antibiotics work on targets and reviews recent strategies for finding innovative antibiotics to replac…
A comprehensive account of the structural classes of antibiotics that have impacted human infectious disease. • Provides an introduction to antibiotics and examines how antibiotics block specific proteins acting in essential bacterial processes and how the molecular structure of…
