Resolving the Antibiotic Paradox : Progress in Understanding Drug Resistance and Development of New Antibiotics

When antibiotics were first introduced they were considered a wonder drug, but now bacteria have become resistant to nearly all antibiotics. This book identifies the issues concerning resistance, as well as describing efforts to develop new drugs that overcome the problem of resistance.

1. Antibiotic Resistance: The Big Picture; D. Mazel, J. Davies. 2. Clinical impact of Antibiotic Resistance; S.A. Lerner. 3. Reversing Tetracycline Resistance: A Renaissance for the Tetracycline Family of Antibiotics; S.B. Levy, M. Nelson. 4. Aminoglycoside Antibiotics: Structures, Functions, and Resistance; G.D. Wright, et al. 5. How beta-Lactamases have Driven Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery; From Mechanistic Knowledge to Clinical Circumvention; K. Bush, S. Mobashery. 6. Antifolate Resistance Mechanisms from Bacteria to Cancer Cells with Emphasis on Parasites; M. Ouellette, et al. 7. Resistance to Antitubercular Drugs; L.A. Basso, J.S. Blanchard. 8. Structure and Function of Multidrug Transporters; H.W. van Veen, W.N. Konings. 9. Metalloid Resistance Mechanisms; R. Mukhopadhyay, et al. 10. The Impact of Bacterial Genomics on Antibacterial Discovery; D.J.C. Knowles, F. King. 11. Peptidoglycan Biosynthesis: Unexploited Antibacterial Targets within a Familiar Pathway; K.K. Wong, D.L. Pompliano. 12. Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Novel Oxazolidinone Antibacterial Agents Active against Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria; M.R. Barbachyn, et al. 13. Concept, Design, and Preclinical Evaluation of Quinolonyl Lactam Antibacterials; P.M. Hershberger, T.P. Demuth Jr. 14. Bacterial Two-Component Signalling as a Therapeutic Target in Drug Design: Inhibition of NRII by the Diphenolic Methanes (Bisphenols); J.M. Domagala, et al. Index.