New Weapons to Control Bacterial Growth
Written by specialists in the different fields, this book presents new perspectives and insights into strategies and weapons to fight microbial infections. It also reviews the “state of the art” of alternative treatment approaches and new therapeutic agen
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Weapons to Control Bacterial Growth
New Weapons to Control Bacterial Growth
Tomas G. Villa Miguel Vinas •
Editors
New Weapons to Control Bacterial Growth
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Editors Tomas G. Villa Faculty of Pharmacy University of Santiago de Compostel Santiago de Compostela Spain
ISBN 978-3-319-28366-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28368-5
Miguel Vinas Faculty of Medicine University of Barcelona L’Hospitalet de Llobregat Spain
ISBN 978-3-319-28368-5
(eBook)
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Contents
Introductory Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tomás G. Villa and Miguel Viñas
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Antimicrobial Peptides Produced by Bacteria: The Bacteriocins . . . . . . Beatriz Martínez, Ana Rodríguez and Evaristo Suárez
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Control of Bacterial Growth Through RNA Degradation . . . . . . . . . . . Tomás G. Villa, Lucía Feijoo-Siota, José Luis R. Rama, Angeles Sánchez-Pérez and Trinidad de Miguel-Bouzas
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Control of Clostridium botulinum in Foods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eric A. Johnson
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DNA-Synthesizing Enzymes as Antibacterial Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carlos Barreiro and Ricardo V. Ullán
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Mechanisms of Drug Efflux and Strategies to Overcome Them as a Way to Control Microbial Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 T. de Miguel, J.L.R. Rama, L. Feijoo-Siota, J.M. Ageitos and M. Viñas Bacterial Proteases as Targets to Control Bacterial Growth . . . . . . . . . 133 Ricardo V. Ullán and Carlos Barreiro Quorum Sensing as Target for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. . . . . . . . . 161 Jerónima Vicente-Soler, Marisa Madrid, Alejandro Franco, Teresa Soto, José Cansado and Mariano Gacto The Case of Lipid II: The Achilles’ Heel of Bacteria. . . . . . . .
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