ANTIBIOTICS! NO, THANKS - Gabriele Graziani, Luciano Graziani

The era of antibiotics is coming to an end . Bacteria are becoming more and more resistant and making the action of these drugs ineffective. Will antibiotic resistance be our new plague? How alarmed should we be?

In this practical guide, pharmacology experts Luciano and Gabriele Graziani illustrate the characteristics of this phenomenon known as drug resistance : in fact, it is not only bacteria that resist drugs, but also other infectious pathogens such as certain viruses and parasites. .

The authors explain to us why many antibiotics are prescribed unnecessarily, what are the consequences of their increasingly massive use in the food industry and why scientific discoveries in this field have stopped in the last 30 years.

Alternative therapies with natural antibiotics such as colloidal silver and bacteriophages are also presented. The work is completed by a table of the most frequently used antibiotics and a very useful glossary.

Chapter 1 - The problem of antibiotic resistance

• The miracle of antibiotics
• The beginning of the antibiotic era

Chapter 2 - Drug resistance

• Drug resistance of bacteria
• Drug resistance of viruses
• Drug resistance of fungi

Chapter 3 - The battlefield of bacteria

• Designing new antibiotics
• Infection control

Chapter 4 - The areas where antibiotic resistance spreads

• Drug resistance in communities
• Drug resistance in hospitals
• Drug resistance in basic medicine
• Drug resistance in agriculture and intensive farming
• Drug resistance is also transmitted through the air

Chapter 5 - Impact of drug resistance on the world economy until 2050

Chapter 6 - Italian regional variability in drug consumption and new national plan to combat antimicrobial resistance

Chapter 7 - Effective alternative or complementary therapies to antibiotics

• Phage therapy: bacteriophages as natural antibiotics
• Silver as a natural antibiotic
• Essential oils to fight drug resistance
• Vitamin C and its synergy with antibiotics

Conclusions

Glossary

Bibliography

Appendix

Fundamental classes of antibiotics

Most frequently used antibiotics in therapy