New Weapons to Control Bacterial Growth

1. Introductory Chapter
Tomás G. Villa, Miguel Viñas

2. Antimicrobial Peptides Produced by Bacteria: The Bacteriocins
Beatriz Martínez, Ana Rodríguez, Evaristo Suárez

3. Control of Bacterial Growth Through RNA Degradation
Tomás G. Villa, Lucía Feijoo-Siota, José Luis R. Rama, Angeles Sánchez-Pérez, Trinidad Miguel-Bouzas

4. Control of Clostridium botulinum in Foods
Eric A. Johnson

5. DNA-Synthesizing Enzymes as Antibacterial Targets
Carlos Barreiro, Ricardo V. Ullán

6. Mechanisms of Drug Efflux and Strategies to Overcome Them as a Way to Control Microbial Growth
T. Miguel, J. L. R. Rama, L. Feijoo-Siota, J. M. Ageitos, M. Viñas

7. Bacterial Proteases as Targets to Control Bacterial Growth
Ricardo V. Ullán, Carlos Barreiro

8.
Quorum Sensing as Target for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Jerónima Vicente-Soler, Marisa Madrid, Alejandro Franco, Teresa Soto, José Cansado, Mariano Gacto

9. The Case of Lipid II: The Achilles’ Heel of Bacteria
Tomás G. Villa, Lucía Feijoo-Siota, José Luis R. Rama, Angeles Sánchez-Pérez, Trinidad Miguel-Bouzas

10. Microbiome Control in the Prevention and Early Management of Cancer
Paul A. Nguewa, Tomás G. Villa, Vicente Notario

11. Targets Against Helicobacter pylori and Other Tumor-Producing Bacteria
Nageswara Rao Reddy Neelapu, Deepthi Nammi, Amita Martin Corolina Pasupuleti, Surekha Challa

12. Intestinal Microbiota: First Barrier Against Gut-Affecting Pathogens
Pilar Calo-Mata, Jose Manuel Ageitos, Karola Böhme, Jorge Barros-Velázquez

13. Fecal Matter Implantation as a Way to Fight Diarrhea-Causing Microorganisms
Tomás G. Villa, Lucía Feijoo-Siota, José Luis R. Rama, Angeles Sánchez-Pérez, Trinidad Miguel-Bouzas

14. Human Mutations Affecting Antibiotics
Tomás G. Villa, Lucía Feijoo-Siota, José Luis R. Rama, Angeles Sánchez-Pérez, Trinidad Miguel-Bouzas

15. Different Approaches for Searching New Microbial Compounds with Anti-infective Activity
Sara Centeno-Leija, Silvia Guzmán-Trampe, Karol Rodríguez-Peña, Diana Bautista-Tovar, Allan Espinosa, Miriam Trenado, Sergio Sánchez

16. Therapeutic Potential of Antimicrobial Peptides
Francesc Rabanal, Yolanda Cajal

17. The Use of Nanoparticles for Antimicrobial Delivery
María Moreno-Sastre, Marta Pastor, Amaia Esquisabel, José Luis Pedraz

18. Bacterial Predation: Natural Guns to Control Infection
Mercedes Berlanga, Miguel Viñas, Ricardo Guerrero

19. The Biological Fight Against Pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa
Tomás G. Villa, Angeles Sánchez-Pérez, Miguel Viñas

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