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Avoiding infection has always been expensive. Some human populations escaped tropical infections by migrating into cold climates but then had to procure fuel, warm clothing, durable housing, and crops from a short growing season. Waterborne infections were averted by owning your own well or supporting a community reservoir. Everyone got vaccines in rich countries, while people in others got them later if at all. Antimicrobial agents seemed at first to be an exception. They did not need to be delivered through a cold chain and to everyone, as vaccines did. They had to be given only to infected patients and often then as relatively cheap injectables or pills off a shelf for only a few days to get astonishing cures. Antimicrobials not only were better than most other innovations but also reached more of the world’s people sooner. The problem appeared later. After each new antimicrobial became widely used, genes expressing resistance to it began to emerge and spread through bacterial populations. Patients infected with bacteria expressing such resistance genes then failed treatment and remained infected or died. Growing resistance to antimicrobial agents began to take away more and more of the cures that the agents had brought.

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Author:   Aníbal de J. Sosa ,  Denis K. Byarugaba ,  Carlos F. Amábile-Cuevas ,  Po-Ren Hsueh
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2010 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.878kg
ISBN:  

9781489984258

ISBN 10:   1489984259
Pages:   554
Publication Date:   03 September 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

General Issues in Antimicrobial Resistance.- Global Perspectives of Antibiotic Resistance.- Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance.- Poverty and Root Causes of Resistance in Developing Countries.- What the Future Holds for Resistance in Developing Countries.- The Introduction of Antimicrobial Agents in Resource-Constrained Countries: Impact on the Emergence of Resistance.- The Human Impact of Resistance.- Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Resistance to Antiretroviral Drugs in Developing Countries.- Drug Resistance in Malaria in Developing Countries.- Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.- Antifungal Drug Resistance in Developing Countries.- Drug Resistance in African Trypanosomiasis.- Antimicrobial Resistance in Enteric Pathogens in Developing Countries.- Bacterial-Resistant Infections in Resource-Limited Countries.- Prevalence of Resistant Enterococci in Developing Countries.- Antimicrobial Resistance in Gram-Negative Bacteria from Developing Countries.- Resistance in Reservoirs and Human Commensals.- Antimicrobial Use and Misuse.- Determinants of Antimicrobial Use: Poorly Understood–Poorly Researched.- Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Africa.- Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in Asia.- Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean.- Hospital Infections by Antimicrobial-Resistant Organisms in Developing Countries.- Cost, Policy and Regulation of Antimicrobials.- The Economic Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance in the Developing World.- Strengthening Health Systems to Improve Access to Antimicrobials and the Containment of Resistance.- The Role of Unregulated Sale and Dispensing of Antimicrobial Agents on the Development of Antimicrobial Resistance in Developing Countries.- Counterfeit and Substandard Anti-infectives in Developing Countries.-Strategies to contain AMR.- Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance in Developing Countries and Lessons Learned.- Surveillance of Antibiotic Resistance in Developing Countries: Needs, Constraints and Realities.- Vaccines: A Cost-Effective Strategy to Contain Antimicrobial Resistance.- Teaching Appropriate Antibiotic Use in Developing Countries.- Containing Global Antibiotic Resistance: Ethical Drug Promotion in the Developing World.- News Media Reporting of Antimicrobial Resistance in Latin America and India.

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Aus den Rezensionen: ... In dem Buch werden von insgesamt 30 Autorinnen (Mikrobiologen und Infektiologen) in hervorragenden Ubersichtsartikeln all die genannten Probleme dargestellt. Die Literaturangaben sind auf dem neuesten Stand. Fur alle die sich mit Infektionserkrankungen hier und in armen Landern beschaftigen ist das Buch ein Muss und kann uneingeschrankt empfohlen werden. (Dr Gerhard Schwarzkopf-Steinhauser, in: Pharma-Brief, May/June/2010, Issue 4-5, S. 4 f.)

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