Efflux pumps as a mechanism of antibiotic resistance

Our book highlights the different classes of antibiotics known to date and their modes of action and determines the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. It focuses essentially on membrane systems such as efflux pumps as the major cause of this resistance and finally, it emphasizes the inhibitors of these pumps as a solution to remedy this phenomenon of great interest.

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Ahmed Nafis, nascido em 21/05/1990, é investigador em Microbiologia na Universidade Cadi Ayyad de Marraquexe, Marrocos. O seu trabalho de investigação centra-se na descoberta de novas substâncias de origem microbiana para utilização farmacêutica, industrial ou agrícola.