Important human pathogens resistant to antibiotics result from the human use of antibiotics.
Does this imply that reducing their usage or removing antibiotics from medicine and …

Increasing concern about the emergence of resistance in clinically important pathogens has
led to the establishment of a number of surveillance programmes to monitor the true extent …

Novel drug targets are required in order to design new defenses against antibiotic-resistant
pathogens. Comparative genomics provides new opportunities for finding optimal targets …

Fully updated and rewritten by a basic scientist who is also a practicing physician, the third
edition of this popular textbook remains comprehensive, authoritative and readable. Taking …

Based on the notion that dimerization and/or variation of amino acid 1 of vancomycin could
potentially enhance biological activity, a series of synthetic and chemical biology studies …

As the global threat of drug-and antibiotic-resistant bacteria continues to rise, new strategies
are required to advance the drug discovery process. This work describes the construction of …

There is an increasing concern within both the scientific and security communities that the
ongoing revolution in biology has great potential to be misused in offensive biological …

Selectively controlling the bioactivity of antimicrobial peptides is not only a fascinating
scientific challenge but also a necessity in localized antibacterial therapy. Here, a smart …

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is responsible for causing gonorrhea, one of the most common
sexually transmitted diseases prevailing globally. Although extensive researches are in …

This is an easily-accessible two-volume encyclopedia summarizing all the articles in the
main volumes Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Fifth Edition organized …