书目名称 | Resolving the Antibiotic Paradox |
副标题 | Progress in Understa |
编辑 | Barry P. Rosen,Shahriar Mobashery |
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丛书名称 | Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology |
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描述 | Antibiotic resistance, once a term appreciated only by microbiologists, has become a common topic in the popular press. Stuart Levy, one of the contributors to this collection, bears some of the responsibility for increasing public awareness with the publication of his book "The Antibiotic Paradox" in 1992: Misuse of antibiotics resulting in increased bacterial resistance had previously been recognized in the infectious disease community. However, Dr. Levy‘s eloquent public warning about the shrinking efficacy of our antibi otic armamentarium served to alert the lay person to the potential consequences of this de mise in useful therapy. Because of the proliferation of diverse antibiotic classes with increasing potency and broader activity spectra, it had been assumed that any ordinary bacterial infection could be eradicated with the proper selection of drug. However, it has become evident that we are surrounded by resistant bacteria, many of which were introduced unwittingly into our en vironment through the unnecessary use of antibiotics. When it became evident that a number of people were returning for multiple visits to their family physicians for persist ent ear infections |
出版日期 | Book 1998 |
关键词 | antibiotics; bacteria; infectious; infectious disease; infectious diseases |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4897-3 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4613-7220-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4615-4897-3Series ISSN 0065-2598 Series E-ISSN 2214-8019 |
issn_series | 0065-2598 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Busines |