Mechanisms of bacterial antibiotic resistance refer to the processes that enable bacteria to counter the harmful action of antibacterial agents against them.
Keywords: antibiotics; drug resistance; multiresistance; MRSA
Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance
Shahriar Mobashery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Eduardo F Azucena Jr, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Published online: July 2003
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0001993
| Further Reading | |
| book Amábile-Cuevas CF (ed.) (1996) Antibiotic Resistance: From Molecular Basics to Therapeutic Options. New York: Chapman and Hall. | |
| book Bryan LE (ed.) (1989) "Antimicrobial Resistance". Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, vol. 91. Berlin: Springer. | |
| book Chadwick DJ and Goode J (eds) (1997) Antibiotic Resistance: Origins, Evolution, Selection and Spread. New York: Wiley. | |
| book Ewald PW (1994) Evolution of Infectious Disease. New York: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Fisher JA (1994) The Plague Makers. New York: Simon and Schuster. | |
| book Garrett L (1994) The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. | |
| book Harrison PF and Lederberg J (eds) (1998) Antimicrobial Resistance: Issues and Options. Washington DC: National Academy Press. | |
| book Jungkind DL, Mortensen JE, Fraimow HS and Calandra GB (eds) (1995) Antimicrobial Resistance: A Crisis in Health Care. New York: Plenum Press. | |
| book Levy SB (1992) The Antibiotic Paradox: How Miracle Drugs Are Destroying the Miracle. New York: Plenum Press. | |
| book Rosen BP and Mobashery S (eds) (1998) Resolving the Antibiotics Paradox. New York: Plenum Press. | |
| book Wilson ME, Levins R and Spielman A (1994) "Disease in evolution: global changes and emergence of infectious diseases". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 740. | |
