Overcoming resistance through novel drug targets [electronic resource] / Anthony Coates.
Material type: FilmSeries: Henry Stewart talksBiomedical & life sciences collection. Antibiotic resistance : from genes to global prevalence: Publisher: London : Henry Stewart Talks, 2009Description: 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (26 min.) : color, sound)Subject(s): Drug Resistance, MicrobialOnline resources: Click here to access online | SeriesAnimated audio-visual presentation with synchronized narration.
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Contents: Urgent need for new antibiotics -- Why are so few antibiotics reaching the market -- Pharmaceutical companies leaving the research arena -- Targets -- Bacterial molecules (genomics) -- Problems with the genomic approach -- Bacteriophage -- Treatments and problems with bacteriophages -- Whole bacteria -- Conventional multiplying bacteria -- Non-culturable bacteria -- Non-multiplying bacteria -- Tuberculosis, bacterial endocarditis, catheter infections and prosthesis infections -- Ways of making new antibiotics against whole live bacteria -- Potential advantages and problems of making new antibiotics which kill non-multiplying and multiplying bacteria -- Standardization.
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