Full Description
This book presents advanced therapies based on new and complementary drugs, and alternative techniques and strategies, such as phages, probiotics, flavonoids, essential oils, cellulose, peptides, nano delivery, iron starvation and vaccines.
Contents
Preface.- Chapter 1 Strategies for prevention and containment of antimicrobial resistance.-Chapter 2 Probiotics, Prebiotics and Synbiotics for the prevention of Antimicrobial Resistance.- Chapter 3 Plant natural products for mitigation of antibiotic resistance.- Chapter 4 Essential Oils as Potential Antimicrobial Agents.- Chapter 5 Polymeric Antimicrobials with Quaternary Ammonium Moieties.- Chapter 6 Nanoparticles: Powerful tool to mitigate antibiotic resistance.- Chapter 7 Antimicrobial Peptides and Peptidomimetics for the Control of Antibiotic Resistance.- Chapter 8 Exploiting the Achilles' heel of iron dependence in antibiotic resistant bacteria with new anti-microbial iron withdrawal agents.- Chapter 9 Potential for phage biotechnology to mitigate antimicrobial resistance in agriculture.- Chapter 10 - The Role of Vaccines in Combating Antimicrobial Resistance.
