Article
Antibiotic resistance: the current position and the molecular mechanisms involved.
British journal of hospital medicine - 1 Jan 2000
Hayward C M, Griffin G E
Abstract excerpt
The introduction of antibiotics heralded a new era in the chemotherapy of infectious diseases, but over the ensuing years bacterial evolutionary responses to the selective pressure of antibiotics have resulted in microorganisms resistant to virtually every known antibiotic. The consequences have...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Bacterial Proteins
- Coagulase
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Enterococcus
- Genes, Bacterial
- Humans
- Mutation
- Penicillin Resistance
- Plasmids
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Staphylococcus
- Staphylococcus aureus
