Sustainable agriculture reviews 49, Mitigation of antimicrobial resistance. Vol 2, Natural and synthetic approaches /

Antibiotics have drastically improved the health and life expectancy of humans, yet the abrupt increase of antibiotic usage for animals, agriculture and healthcare has induced antimicrobial resistance. Antimicrobial resistance is leading to resurgence of deadly infectious diseases, calling for new c...

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Other Authors: Panwar, Harsh,, Sharma, Chetan,, Lichtfouse, Eric, SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2021.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 436 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Series: Sustainable agriculture reviews ; v. 49.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 Strategies for prevention and containment of antimicrobial resistance.-Chapter 2 Probiotics, Prebiotics and Synbiotics for the prevention of Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Chapter 3 Plant natural products for mitigation of antibiotic resistance
  • Chapter 4 Essential Oils as Potential Antimicrobial Agents
  • Chapter 5 Polymeric Antimicrobials with Quaternary Ammonium Moieties
  • Chapter 6 Nanoparticles: Powerful tool to mitigate antibiotic resistance
  • Chapter 7 Antimicrobial Peptides and Peptidomimetics for the Control of Antibiotic Resistance
  • Chapter 8 Exploiting the Achilles' heel of iron dependence in antibiotic resistant bacteria with new anti-microbial iron withdrawal agents
  • Chapter 9 Potential for phage biotechnology to mitigate antimicrobial resistance in agriculture
  • Chapter 10
  • The Role of Vaccines in Combating Antimicrobial Resistance.