Antimicrobial Drug Resistance

G. Gram-Positive Bacterial Drug Resistance – Clinical

1. Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Lesley McGee, Keith P. Klugman

2. Antibiotic Resistance of Non-Pneumococcal Streptococci and Its Clinical Impact
Jari Jalava, Helena Seppälä

3. Enterococcus: Antimicrobial Resistance in Enterococci Epidemiology, Treatment, and Control
Anne Y. Chen, Marcus J. Zervos

4. Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococci: Mechanisms of Resistance and Clinical Implications
Lisa G. Winston, Henry F. Chambers

5. Resistance in Aerobic Gram-Positive Bacilli
David J. Weber, William A. Rutala

H. Gram-Negative Bacterial Drug Resistance – Clinical

6. Antibiotic Resistance in Neisseria

Margaret C. Bash, Durrie L. McKnew, John W. Tapsall

7. Mechanisms of Resistance in Haemophilus influenzae and Moraxella catarrhalis

Michael R. Jacobs

8. Enterobacteriaceae
David L. Paterson

9. Pseudomonas aeruginosa
David L. Paterson, Baek-Nam Kim

10. Acinetobacter
David L. Paterson, Anton Y. Peleg

11. Antimicrobial Resistance of Shigella spp., Typhoid Salmonella and Nontyphoid Salmonella

Herbert L. DuPont

12. Antimicrobial Resistance in Vibrios
Michael L. Bennish, Wasif A. Khan, Debasish Saha

13. Antimicrobial Resistance in Helicobacter and Campylobacter

Patrick F. McDermott, Joanne L. Simala-Grant, Diane E. Taylor

14. Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
Michael A. Saubolle

15. Antibiotic Resistance of Anaerobic Bacteria
Itzhak Brook

16. Mycobacteria: Tuberculosis
Francis A. Drobniewski, Yanina Balabanova

17. Drug Resistance by Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria
Kathleen Horan, Gerard A. Cangelosi

I. Fungal Drug Resistance – Clinical

18. The Role of Resistance in Candida Infections: Epidemiology and Treatment
J. D. Sobel, R. A. Akins

19. Antifungal Resistance: Aspergillus

P. H. Chandrasekar, Elias K. Manavathu

20. Drug Resistance in Cryptococcus neoformans

Kimberly E. Hanson, Barbara D. Alexander, John Perfect

21. Antifungal Drug Resistance in Histoplasmosis
L. Joseph Wheat, Patricia Connolly, Melinda Smedema, P. David Rogers

22. Drug Resistance in Pneumocystis jirovecii

Jannik Helweg-Larsen, Thomas Benfield, Joseph Kovacs, Henry Masur

J. Viral Drug Resistance – Clinical

23. Antiviral Resistance in Influenza Viruses: Clinical and Epidemiological Aspects
Frederick G. Hayden

24. Herpesvirus Resistance
G. Boivin, W.L. Drew

25. Clinical Implications of HIV-1 Drug Resistance
Douglas L. Mayers

26. Clinical Implications of Resistance for Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B
Nathaniel A. Brown

K. Parasitic Drug Resistance – Clinical

27. Antimalarial Drug Resistance: Clinical Perspectives
Philip J. Rosenthal

28. Diagnosis and Treatment of Metronidazole-Resistant Trichomonas vaginalis Infection
Sarah L. Cudmore, Gary E. Garber

29. Drug Resistance in Leishmania: Clinical Perspectives
Shyam Sundar, Madhukar Rai

30. Human African Trypanosomiasis
Jacques Pépin, Honoré Méda

31. Drug Resistance in Toxoplasma gondii

Paul F. G. Sims

32. Drug Resistance in the Sheep Nematode Parasite Haemonchus contortus, Mechanisms and Clinical Perspectives
Marleen H. Roos

L. Measurements of Drug Resistance

33. In Vitro Performance and Analysis of Combination Anti-infective Evaluations
Robert W. Buckheit, R. Dwayne Lunsford

34. Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Methods for Bacterial Pathogens
Fred C. Tenover

35. Drug Resistance Assays for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Leonid Heifets, Gerard Cangelosi

36. Fungal Drug Resistance Assays
Sevtap Arikan, John H. Rex

37. Viral Phenotypic Resistance Assays
Neil Parkin

38. Drug Resistance Assays for Parasites
N. C. Sangster, G. N. Maitland, S. Geerts, Saskia Decuypere, Jean-Claude Dujardin, J. A. Upcroft, P. Upcroft, M. Duraisingh

39. Genotypic Drug Resistance Assays
A. Huletsky, M. G. Bergeron

40. The Use of Genotypic Assays for Monitoring the Development of Resistance to Antiviral Therapy for HIV-1 Infection and Other Chronic Viral Diseases
Jorge L. Martinez-Cajas, Marco Petrella, Mark A. Wainberg

M. Public Health Issues of Drug Resistance

41. Antimicrobial Resistance: An International Public Health Problem
Carlos A. DiazGranados, John E. Jr. McGowan

42. Hospital Infection Control: Considerations for the Management and Control of Drug-Resistant Organisms
Gonzalo M. L. Bearman, Richard P. Wenzel

43. Controlling the Spread of Resistant Pathogens in the Intensive Care Unit
David K. Henderson

44. Implications of Antibiotic Resistance in Potential Agents of Bioterrorism
Linda M. Weigel, Stephen A. Morse

45. Internet Resources on Antimicrobial Resistance
Matthew E. Falagas, Efthymia A. Karveli

Nyckelord: Medicine & Public Health, Infectious Diseases