[afro-nets] Open Learning Web site on Enteric pathogens

[Salvatore Rubino <rubino@uniss.it>]

Open Learning Web site on Enteric pathogens
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Dear Friends of the Open Learning Web site on Enteric pathogens

A new lecture is available at site http://www.oloep.org/

Transferable Quinolone Resistance
Tony Hart (United Kingdom), University of Liverpool

Fluoroquinolones are one of the most important classes of antimicrobial 
agents currently used in medicine. They are synthetic compounds and so 
bacteria had not been exposed to them until their widespread use in the 
1980s. Despite optimistic predictions that resistance would not emerge; 
resistance has emerged. This basic lecture describes the current known 
mechanisms of resistance. Fluoroquinolones are particularly important 
for the treatment of enteric infections such as typhoid ever.


Ciao, Salvatore Rubino


Prof. Salvatore Rubino
Dip. di Scienze Biomediche
V.le San Pietro 43/b
07100 Sassari (Italy)
Tel: +39-079-228-302
Fax: +39-079-212-345
Cell: +39-3383865292
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