Preface -- Introduction to antibiotic resistance -- Origins of antibiotic resistance -- Surveillance Programs and Antibiotic Resistance: Worldwide and Regional Monitoring of Antibiotic Resistance Trends -- Current and future challenges in the development of antimicrobial agents -- Resistance in Gram-negative bacteria -- Non-multiplying bacteria are profoundly tolerant to antibiotics -- Prevention of drug resistance by multidrug treatment of tuberculosis -- Persister cells–molecular mechanisms related to antibiotic tolerance -- Antimicrobial textiles -- Efflux – how bacteria use pumps to control their micro-environment -- Antibiotics in Phase II and III clinical trials.

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