Microbial natural products have been an important traditional source of valuable antibiotics and other drugs but interest in them waned in the 1990s when big pharma decided that their discovery was no longer cost-effective and concentrated instead on synthetic chemistry as a sou…
The clinical microbiology laboratory is often a sentinel for the detection of drug resistant strains of microorganisms. Standardized protocols require continual scrutiny to detect emerging phenotypic resistance patterns. The timely notification of clinicians with susceptibility …
The clinical microbiology laboratory is often a sentinel for the detection of drug resistant strains of microorganisms. It is vital that microbiology laboratories stay current with standard and emerging methods and have a clear definition of their role in integrated patient care…
This book illustrates that the fungal cell wall is critical for the biology and ecology of all fungi and especially for human fungal pathogens. Readers will learn that the composition of the fungal cell wall is a unique structure which cannot be found in the human host. Conseque…
