Overview
- Provides a comprehensive literature overview on efficacy, adaptation, acquired resistance and cross-resistance for various commonly used antiseptic agents
- Focus on the potential of antiseptics to enhance cross-resistance to antibiotics where multi-resistance has become a major global threat
- Offers practical guidance for academics, professionals and others to make informed decisions on various antiseptic agents in different types of products (e.g. alcohol-based hand rubs, skin antiseptics etc.)
- Helps to reduce unnecessary bacterial or fungal selection pressure so that the efficacy of useful antiseptics is not impaired in the future
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About this book
The book is the first comprehensive reference resource on antiseptic agents, including their efficacy, natural and acquired resistance, adaptation, and cross-resistance. It also discusses their and appropriate use in terms of a balance between their efficacy and the risk of acquired bacterial resistance / tolerance. Focusing on human and veterinary medicine and household products, it helps readers make informed decisions concerning against antiseptic products based on their composition. The book contributes to reduce any unnecessary selection pressure towards emerging pathogens and to keep the powerful antiseptic agents for all those applications that have a clear benefit (e.g. reduction of healthcare-associated infection).
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Book Title: Antiseptic Stewardship
Book Subtitle: Biocide Resistance and Clinical Implications
Authors: Günter Kampf
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98785-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98784-2Published: 05 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07530-9Published: 11 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98785-9Published: 25 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLI, 694
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Environmental Health