Antimicrobial Resistance in Developing Countries

• General Issues in Antimicrobial Resistance.- Global Perspectives of Antibiotic Resistance.- Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance.- Poverty and Root Causes of Resistance in Developing Countries.- What the Future Holds for Resistance in Developing Countries.- The Introduction of Antimicrobial Agents in Resource-Constrained Countries: Impact on the Emergence of Resistance.- The Human Impact of Resistance.- Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Resistance to Antiretroviral Drugs in Developing Countries.- Drug Resistance in Malaria in Developing Countries.- Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.- Antifungal Drug Resistance in Developing Countries.- Drug Resistance in African Trypanosomiasis.- Antimicrobial Resistance in Enteric Pathogens in Developing Countries.- Bacterial-Resistant Infections in Resource-Limited Countries.- Prevalence of Resistant Enterococci in Developing Countries.- Antimicrobial Resistance in Gram-Negative Bacteria from Developing Countries.- Resistance in Reservoirs and Human Commensals.- Antimicrobial Use and Misuse.- Determinants of Antimicrobial Use: Poorly Understood–Poorly Researched.- Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Africa.- Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in Asia.- Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean.- Hospital Infections by Antimicrobial-Resistant Organisms in Developing Countries.- Cost, Policy and Regulation of Antimicrobials.- The Economic Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance in the Developing World.- Strengthening Health Systems to Improve Access to Antimicrobials and the Containment of Resistance.- The Role of Unregulated Sale and Dispensing of Antimicrobial Agents on the Development of Antimicrobial Resistance in Developing Countries.- Counterfeit and Substandard Anti-infectives in Developing Countries.-Strategies to contain AMR.- Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance in Developing Countries and Lessons Learned.- Surveillance of Antibiotic Resistance in Developing Countries: Needs, Constraints and Realities.- Vaccines: A Cost-Effective Strategy to Contain Antimicrobial Resistance.- Teaching Appropriate Antibiotic Use in Developing Countries.- Containing Global Antibiotic Resistance: Ethical Drug Promotion in the Developing World.- News Media Reporting of Antimicrobial Resistance in Latin America and India.

Aus den Rezensionen: "... In dem Buch werden von insgesamt 30 Autorinnen (Mikrobiologen und Infektiologen) in hervorragenden Ubersichtsartikeln all die genannten Probleme dargestellt. Die Literaturangaben sind auf dem neuesten Stand. Fur alle die sich mit Infektionserkrankungen hier und in armen Landern beschaftigen ist das Buch ein Muss und kann uneingeschrankt empfohlen werden." (Dr Gerhard Schwarzkopf-Steinhauser, in: Pharma-Brief, May/June/2010, Issue 4-5, S. 4 f.)