Antimicrobial Compounds Current Strategies and New Alternatives /
Since penicillin and salvarsan were discovered, a number of new drugs to combat infectious diseases have been developed, but at the same time, the number of multi-resistant microorganism strains is increasing. Thus, the design of new and effective antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal agents will...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40444-3 |
Table of Contents:
- Strategies for the design and discovery of novel antibiotics using genetic engineering and genome mining
- X-ray and Neutron Scattering Foundations for the Research in Antimicrobials
- Antibacterial, Antiviral and Antifungal Activity of Essential Oils: Mechanisms and Applications
- New antimicrobial agents of plant origin
- Advances in beta-lactam antibiotics
- The Cornerstone of Nucleic Acid-affecting Antibiotics in Bacteria
- Genetic analysis and manipulation of polyene antibiotic gene clusters as a way to produce more effective antifungal compounds
- Enzybiotics: The rush towards prevention and control of multi-resistant bacteria (MRB)
- New cell wall-affecting antifungal antibiotics
- Perspectives in the research on Antimicrobial peptides
- Glycopeptides and bacterial cell walls.