Overcoming Antimicrobial Resistance of the Skin

Description:

This book is a thorough, practical review of the challenges facing clinicians treating skin microbes and how to combat these therapeutic dilemmas. It expresses the critical public health concern of antimicrobial resistance and shows how microorganisms are developing the ability to halt the progress of antimicrobials like antibiotics, antivirals, and antifungals. Chapters are grouped together in five sections for ease of use. The first three sections of the book convey foundational information on the mechanisms of antibiotics, antivirals, and antifungals resistance, as well as the implications of lack of vaccination. The fourth section then turns to the specifics of drug resistance for protozoan and helminth infections focusing primarily on initial and subsequent resistance to treatment. The book closes with a discussion on the potential solutions of innovative therapy including new delivery mechanisms, broad-spectrum antibiotics, phytocompounds, and biofilms. Chapters feature magnified, microscopic photos for identifying structures as they appear on the skin. Part of the Updates in Clinical Dermatology series, Overcoming Antimicrobial Resistance of the Skin is an important resource relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic, and is written for all medical healthcare professionals.

Table of Contents:

Part I. Emerging Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics

1. Mechanisms of Bacterial Resistance

2. Emerging Bacterial Infections

3. Re-emerging Bacterial Infections of the Skin

Part II. Emerging Resistance to Antivirals

4. Mechanisms of Nonretroviral Resistance

5. Mechanisms of Retroviral Resistance

6. Emerging Viral Infections

7. Reemerging Viral Infections: Implications of Lack of Vaccination

Part III. Emerging Resistance to Antifungals

8. Mechanisms of Antifungal Drug Resistance

9. Emerging and Re-emerging Fungal Infections

Part IV. Emerging Resistance to Drugs for Protozoan and Helminth Infections

10. Mechanisms of Anti-protozoan/Helminth Drug Resistance

11. Emerging and Re-emerging Protozoan/Helminth Infections

Part V. Innovative Therapies on the Forefront

12. Phage Therapy

13. The Role of Biofilms and the Microbiome

14. New Classes of Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics and New Mechanisms of Delivery

15. Phytocompounds

16. Summary: Overcoming Antimicrobial Resistance of the Skin

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