The ability of microorganisms, especially bacteria, to resist or to become tolerant to chemotherapeutic agents, antimicrobial agents, or antibiotics. This resistance may be acquired through gene mutation or foreign DNA in transmissible plasmids (R FACTORS)
Substances that destroy fungi by suppressing their ability to grow or reproduce. They differ from FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL because they defend against fungi present in human or animal tissues
Antibiotics -- Development -- Congresses. : Antibiotic resistance : implications for global health and novel intervention strategies : workshop summary / Eileen R. Choffnes, David A. Relman, and Alison Mack, rapporteurs ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
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Antibiotics -- Dictionaries : Dictionary of antibiotics and related substances with CD-ROM / edited by Barrie W. Bycroft, David J. Payne
Antibiotics in agriculture -- Popular works. : Controversies in science and technology : from maize to menopause / edited by Daniel Lee Kleinman, Abby J. Kinchy, and Jo Handelsman
A group of antibiotics that contain 6-aminopenicillanic acid with a side chain attached to the 6-amino group. The penicillin nucleus is the chief structural requirement for biological activity. The side-chain structure determines many of the antibacterial and pharmacological characteristics. (Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 8th ed, p1065)
