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Encyclopedia and Handbooks - to find basic information
Websites
Databases - to search for journal articles
Websites to find out about new drugs

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Chemistry 151 : Antibiotics Overuse & Antibiotics Resistance (HC)

Books & Reports:

Books on reserve for the course

Please click on the H icon to see what is available to check out.
Reserves are to be used in the library for 2 hours at a time. You can renew if nobody else is waiting to use it.
If you check out within 2 hours of library's closing, they can be checked out overnight until the next day within an hour of opening.

Search Tripod, the Tricollege Library Catalog

Try various keywords, e.g. antibiotic* (to capture antibiotic and antibiotics), resistan* (to capture resistance and resistant), "drug resistant" etc. When you find answers that look promising, click on the Subject heading links to find more in that catagory.
For example, you may find that searching Subject Heading "Drug resistance in microorganisms" to be useful.

Current Industrial Report of Pharmaceuticals except Biologicals (2006)

A Current Industry Report is a survey that measures manufacturing activity in important commodity areas with the primary objective being to provideaccurate data on production and shipments of the products from each selected area. A part of the U.S. Bureau of the Census since 1904, these reports are aninvaluable tool for forecasting, e-policy needs, and market analysis!

Hogging It! Estimates of Antimicrobial Abuse in Livestock (2001) 11(hardcopy on reserve!)

Microbial Threats to Health:Emergence, Detection, and Response

Another National Academies Press electronic book.

Resistant Bugs and Antibiotic Drugs (2005) (hardcopy on reserve!)

The Environmental Defense Fund derived their estimates of antibiotics in feed and animal waster for all 50 states, using data from the U.S. Department of Agricultures most recent Census of Agriculture, for 2002, in conjunction with
per-animal estimates of antibiotic feed-additive use previously developed by the
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) for broiler chickens (those raised for meat,
rather than eggs), hogs and beef cattle.These estimates cover only the nontherapeutic use of antibiotics as
feed additives; they exclude use of antibiotics for treating sick animals or for
controlling disease outbreaks.

The Use of Drugs in Food Animals: Benefits and Risks (hard copy on reserve!)

Electronic books like this one From the National Academies Press are available to view for free. You can also print pages one at a time. The National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States. Authoritative information from experts of the highest caliber.

Encyclopedia and Handbooks - to find basic information:

AccessScience @ McGraw-Hill

Provides full-text access to articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates and links to related websites in all areas of science and technology. Covers 2000-present.

Cecil textbook of medicine

Publisher: Philadelphia : Saunders, c1996.

Goodman & Gilman's The pharmacological basis of therapeutics.

Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2001.

Detailed sections on how each class of antibiotics works.

Merck Manual (Home Edition) Online

Websites:

AGNS - Microbial Resistsance Page

FAO's Food Quality and Standards Service (AGNS) is committed to the enhancement of food safety and quality along the food chain at international, regional and national levels, with the aim of protecting consumers and promoting the production and trade of safe, quality food. Links to consultancy reports over the years.

Animal Health Institute

AHI represents pharmaceutical manufacturers, and has some current statistics of antibiotics sold by AHI members for livestock production use. Check out their press releases for surveys and data.

CDC Website on Drug Resistance

Microbes: What They Do & How Antibiotics Change Them by Maura J. Meade-Callahan

FDA website for Antibiotic Resistance

National Antibiotics Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS)

NARMS is a collaboration among Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Center for Veterinary Medicine) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (Food Safety and Inspection Service and Agricultural Research Services). See this site for updates, publications, program activities and resources.

Union of Concerned Scientists on Antibiotics and Food

Links to other useful reports and publications, including the Hogging It, a report on the use of antibiotics on food animals.

List of websites on Antibiotics Resistance (from Union of Concerned Scientists)

World Health Organization's website to Drug Resistance

Databases - to search for journal articles:

LexisNexis academic

Provider: LN

Full-text of thousands of newspapers, magazines, news transcripts, reference works, and legal materials. Includes NY Times (1980-current)

ProQuest Research Library

Provider: ProQuest

Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.

PubMed

Provider: NCBI

Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

Websites to find out about new drugs:

Drug Discovery@Nature.com

Drug discovery@nature.com is an information resource for everyone with an interest in drug discovery from Nature Publishing Group titles. Try keywords "new antibiotics" to get started.

Drug Discovery News

More business oriented than scientifically oriented news site. News capsules often cite interesting articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Medical News Today

A useful archive of medical news from 2003 and large volume of articles coming through everyday makes this a good screening site for what's new.

Science Daily

Extensive site on top science news of the day. Articles are from academic and industry sources.