Author: S.L. Dax
Over the past 50 years a wide variety of antibacterial
substances have been discovered and synthesised, and their use in treating bacterial infection has been spectacularly successful. Today there are several general classes of
antibacterial drugs, each having a well established set of uses, and together they form the
mainstay of modern antibacterial chemotherapy. In search for new and improved agents, the pharmaceutical researcher needs to be well informed on many topics, including existing agents, their modes of action and pharmacology, and possible synthetic approaches. In this new book the author has brought together a wide range of information on the principal classes of antibacterial