Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview of aminoglycosides and enzyme-mediated bacterial resistance: clinical implications / Robert A. Bonomo -- Aminoglycoside antibiotics / Kanchana Majumder ... [et al.] -- Structural aspects of aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes / Gerard D. Wright and Albert M. Berghuis -- Aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes: characteristics, localization, and dissemination / Marcelo E. Tolmasky -- rRNA methylases and resistance to macrolide, lincosamide, streptogramin, ketolide, and oxazolidinone (MLSKO) antibiotics / Marilyn C. Roberts -- [Beta]-lactamases: historical perspectives / Karen Bush and Patricia A. Bradford -- Resistance mediated by penicillin-binding proteins / Malcolm G. P. Page -- Inhibition of class A [beta]-lactamases / Samy O. Meroueh, Jooyoung Cha, And Shahriar Mobashery -- Class B [beta]-lactamases / Gian Maria Rossolini and Jean-Denis Docquier -- Crystal structures of class C [beta]-lactamases: mechanistic implications and perspectives in drug design / C. Bauvois and J. Wouters --

Class D [beta]-lactamases / Franck Danel, Malcolm G. P. Page, and David M. Livermore -- Kinetics of [beta]-lactamases and penicillin-binding proteins / Moreno Galleni and Jean-Marie Fr�ere -- The pharmaceutical industry and inhibitors of bacterial enzymes: implications for drug development / David M. Shlaes, Lefa Alksne, and Steven J. Projan -- [Beta]-lactamase inhibitory proteins / Zhen Zhang and Timothy Palzkill -- Active drug efflux in bacteria / J�urg Dreier -- Overview of dissemination mechanisms of genes coding for resistance to antibiotics / Marcelo E. Tolmasky -- Conjugative transposons / Louis B. Rice -- The dissemination of antibiotic resistance by bacterial conjugation / Virginia L. Waters -- Bacterial toxin-antitoxin systems as targets for the development of novel antibiotics / Juan C. Alonso ... [et al.] -- Integrons and superintegrons / Robert A. Bonomo, Andrea M. Hujer, and Kristine M. Hujer -- The biological cost of antibiotic resistance / Dan I. Andersson ... [et al.].