Research Catalog

Title

The resistance phenomenon in microbes and infectious disease vectors : implications for human health and strategies for containment : workshop summary / Stacey L. Knobler [and others], editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Additional Authors

• Knobler, Stacey.
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Emerging Infections.

Description

xix, 313 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Drug Resistance, Microbial
• Communicable Diseases, Emerging > prevention & control
• Disease Vectors
• Insecticide Resistance
• Drug resistance in microorganisms > Congresses
• Drug Resistance, Multiple
• Congress

Genre/Form

Congress.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in electronic form via the Internet as viewed 4/16/2003.

Contents

• Summary and Assessment / Stanley M. Lemon -- 1. Introduction -- Microbial Resistance: Adopting an Evolutionary Approach -- Arms Races and Antimicrobial Resistance: Using Evolutionary Science to Slow Evolution / Stephen R. Palumbi -- Antibiotic Resistance 1992-2002: A Decade's Journey / Stuart B. Levy -- 2. Microbe Resistance -- New Strategies Against Multi-Drug-Resistant Bacterial Pathogens / Alexander Tomasz -- Malaria and the Problem of Chloroquine Resistance / Thomas E. Wellems -- Drug Resistance in Treatment of Schistosomiasis / Charles H. King -- Bacterial Infection in Irradiated Mice: Therapy and Prophylaxis (Anthrax, a Special Consideration) / Thomas B. Elliott -- 3. Vector Resistance -- Insecticide Resistance in Insect Vectors of Human Disease / Janet Hemingway -- Managing the Emergence of Pesticide Resistance in Vectors / William G. Brogdon --
• What Is the Role of Insecticide Resistance in the Re-Emergence of Major Arthropod-Borne Diseases? / Donald R. Roberts and Paul B. Hshieh -- 4. The Economics of Resistance -- What Does Economics Have to Offer in the War Against Antimicrobial Resistance? / Richard D. Smith -- Economic Instruments for the Control of Antimicrobial Resistance / William Jack -- Economic Responses to the Problem of Drug Resistance / Ramanan Laxminarayan -- 5. Factors Contributing to the Emergence of Resistance -- Antibiotic Use and Resistance in Developing Countries / Iruka N. Okeke -- Healthcare-Acquired Infections: Hospitals as a Breeding Ground for Antimicrobial Resistance / Lindsay E. Nicolle -- The Use of Antimicrobials in Food-Producing Animals / Thomas R. Shryock -- 6. Emerging Tools and Technology for Countering Resistance -- Evolution of Multiple Mechanisms of Resistance to [beta]-Lactam Antibiotics / Dasantila Golemi-Kotra, Sergei Vakulenko and Shahriar Mobashery --
• Using Phage Lytic Enzymes to Control Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogenic Bacteria on Mucous Membranes / Vincent A. Fischetti -- Roles for Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics in Drug Development for Resistant Pathogens / Jerome J. Schentag and Alan Forrest -- 7. Strategies to Contain the Development and Consequences of Resistance -- Development of the Public Health Action Plan to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance and CDC Activities Related to Its Implementation / David M. Bell -- Antibiotic Resistance: Encouraging the Development of New Therapies, Preserving the Usefulness of Current Therapies / Mark J. Goldberger -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Campaign to Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance in Health Care Settings / Julie L. Gerberding -- Antimicrobial Resistance Containment Strategies of the Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus Program / Terry Green and Anthony Savelli -- Antimicrobial Resistance and Future Directions / Mary E. Torrence --
• App. A. Public Health Consequences of Use of Antimicrobial Agents in Agriculture -- App. B. Agenda: Issues of Resistance: Microbes, Vectors, and the Host -- App. C. Information Resources -- App. D. Executive Summary: WHO Report -- App. E. Executive Summary: GFHR Report -- App. F. Executive Summary: Interagency Task Force Report -- App. G. Forum Member, Speaker, and Staff Biographies.

ISBN

0309088542 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003005451

OCLC

• ocm51848639
• SCSB-4349569

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries