Superbugs : : An Arms Race against Bacteria / / Anthony McDonnell, William Hall, Jim O'Neill.
Antibiotics are powerful drugs that can prevent and treat infections, but they are becoming less effective as a result of drug resistance. Resistance develops because the bacteria that antibiotics target can evolve ways to defend themselves against these drugs. When antibiotics fail, there is very l...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 p.) :; 2 halftones, 4 line illustrations, 4 graphs, 3 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I. The Problem of Drug Resistance
- Chapter 1. When a Scratch Could Kill
- Chapter 2. The Rise of Resistance
- Chapter 3. Failures in Tackling Drug-Resistant Infections
- Part II. Solutions to Counter Antimicrobial Resistance
- Chapter 4. Incentives for New Drug Development
- Chapter 5. Prevention Is Better than Cure
- Chapter 6. Reducing Unnecessary Use of Antibiotics in Humans
- Chapter 7. Agriculture and the Environment
- Chapter 8. Next Steps
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index