Preface; Contents; Contributors; Global Aspects of Antibiotic Resistance; Genomics of Bacterial Pathogens; Bioinformatics, Genomics, and Antimicrobial Drug Discovery; The Pathway Tools Software and Its Role in Antimicrobial Drug Discovery; Genomic Strategies in Antibacterial Drug Discovery; Genomics-Based Approaches to Novel Antimicrobial Target Discovery; Pathogenesis Genes as Novel Targets; Application of Genomics to the Discovery of New Drugs Against Tuberculosis; Phenotype MicroArrays: Their Use in Antibiotic Discovery
Summary
This text examines bioinformatic and genomic approaches for the identification, detection, selection, and validation of new antibacterial targets and vaccine candidates