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- Written by recognized experts in their field with own hands-on experience
- Combines basic research with clinical applications
- Offers the current state-of-the-art in antimicrobial research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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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 be a major challenge in the next years.
This book reviews the current state-of-the-art in antimicrobial research and discusses new strategies for the design and discovery of novel therapies. Topics covered include the use of genetic engineering, genome mining, manipulation of gene clusters, X-ray and neutron scattering as well as the antimicrobial effects of essential oils, antimicrobial agents of plant origin, beta-lactam antibiotics, antimicrobial peptides, and cell-wall-affecting antifungal antibiotics.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Antimicrobial Compounds
Book Subtitle: Current Strategies and New Alternatives
Editors: Tomás G. Villa, Patricia Veiga-Crespo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40444-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-40443-6Published: 30 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51216-6Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-40444-3Published: 19 October 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 316
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microbiology, Medical Microbiology, Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology