Superbugs an arms race against bacteria

Antibiotics are powerful drugs that can prevent and treat infections, but they are becoming less effective as a result of drug resistance. Superbugs describes this growing global threat, the systematic failures that have led to it, and solutions that governments, industries, and public health specia...

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Главный автор: Hall, William (Author of Superbugs)
Другие авторы: McDonnell, Anthony (Co-author of Superbugs), O'Neill, Jim (Economist)
Формат: Электронная книга
Язык:English
Публикация: Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press, 2018.
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Online-ссылка:EBSCOhost
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Оглавление:
  • Part I. The rise of resistance: When a scratch could kill
  • The rise of resistance
  • Failures in tackling drug-resistant infections
  • Part II. Solutions to counter antimicrobial resistance: Incentivizing the creation of new drugs
  • Prevention is better than cure
  • Reducing unnecessary use of antibiotics in humans
  • Agriculture and the environment
  • Next steps.