Edited by
Mahendra Rai
Kateryna Kon

2015

Resistance to antimicrobial agents has been reaching high levels among all types of microorganisms. Bacteria constantly demonstrate growing rates of resistance to classical and newly introduced antibiotics, fungi increase rates of resistance to antimycotics, viruses increase rates of resistance to antiviral agents, and even insect vectors carrying microorganisms have been acquiring the ability to develop resistance to the most common insecticidal agents.