Antimicrobial resistance (AMR or AR) is the ability of a microbe to resist the effects of medication that once could successfully treat the microbe.The term antibiotic resistance (AR or ABR) is a subset of AMR, as it applies only to bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics. Resistant microbes are more difficult to treat, requiring alternative medications or higher doses of antimicrobials. These approaches may be more expensive, more toxic or both. Microbes resistant to multiple antimicrobials are called multidrug resistant (MDR). Those considered extensively drug resistant (XDR) or totally drug-resistant (TDR) are sometimes called "superbugs
Components of the Book:
- Chapter 1
Ten years of antibiotic consumption in ambulatory care: Trends inprescribing practice and antibiotic resistance in Austria
- Chapter 2
Empiric antibiotic therapy in urinary tract infection in patients with risk factors for
antibiotic resistance in a German emergency department
- Chapter 3
Effect of prior receipt of antibiotics on the pathogen distribution and antibiotic
resistance profile of key Gram-negative pathogens among patients with hospitalonset urinary tract infections
- Chapter 4
Detection of antibiotic resistance in probiotics of dietary supplements
- Chapter 5
WAAR (World Alliance against Antibiotic Resistance): Safeguarding antibiotics
- Chapter 6
The need for continued monitoring of antibiotic resistance patterns in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from London and Malta
- Chapter 7
Q&A: Antibiotic resistance: where does it come from and what can we do about it?
- Chapter 8
Species diversity and antibiotic resistance properties of Staphylococcus of farm animal origin in Nkonkobe Municipality, South Africa
- Chapter 9
Comparison of antibiotic resistance patterns in collections of Escherichia coli and Proteus mirabilis uropathogenic strains
- Chapter 10
Sex- and age-specific trends in antibiotic resistance patterns of Escherichia coli urinary isolates from outpatients
- Chapter 11
Prevalence of antibiotic resistance in lactic acid bacteria isolated from the faeces of broiler chicken in Malaysia
- Chapter 12
One Health and Antibiotic Resistance in Agroecosystems
- Chapter 13
Does antibiotic resistance impair plasma susceptibility of multi‑drug resistant clinical
isolates of enterococci in vitro?
- Chapter 14
Profiling of antibiotic resistance of bacterial species recovered from routine
clinical isolates in Ethiopia
- Chapter 15
Prevalence of antibiotic resistance in multi-drug resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from invasive infection in very low birth weight neonates in two Polish NICUs
Readership:
Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in Antibiotic Resistance.
Sigrid Metz-Gercek, Dept. of Hygiene Microbiology and Tropical Medicine, Elisabethinen Hospital Linz, Linz, Austria
Reinhild Strauß, Federal Ministry of Health, Family and YouthWien,Austria
Claude Rambaud, LIENBoulogne-Billancourt, France
Anthony A. Adegoke, Applied and Environmental Microbiology Research Group (AEMREG), Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa
Wioletta Adamus-Bialek, Department of Environment Protection and Modelling, Jan Kochanowski University, KielcePoland
Lisa M. Durso, USDA, ARS, Agroecosystem Management Research Unit, Lincoln, USA
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