Treating Infectious Diseases in a Microbial World: Report of Two Workshops on Novel Antimicrobial Therapeutics

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.

• | By (Author): 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 (Author)
• | Publisher: National Academies Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 03, 2006
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 102 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 0309100569
• | ISBN-13: 9780309100564