Treating infectious diseases in a microbial world: report of two workshops on novel antimicrobial therapeutics
Auteur :
National Research Council / Division on Earth and Life Studies / Board on Life Sciences / Committee on New Directions in the Study of Antimicrobial Therapeutics: Immunomodulation / Committee on New Directions in the Study of Antimicrobial Therapeutics: New Classes of Antimicrobials
Éditeur :
National Academies Press
ISBN :
9780309100564
Date de publication :
3 janv. 2006
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Identifies different approaches to the development of antimicrobial drugs and vaccines based on a greater understanding of how the human immune system interacts with both good and bad microbes. This report concludes that the development of a single superdrug to fight all infectious agents is unrealistic.