The renewed challenge of antibacterial chemotherapy

Chemical Communications

Volumn , Issue 24, 1997, Pages 2333-2342

  Niccolai, Daniela ^a   Tarsi, Luca ^a   Thomas, Russell J ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CYCLOTHIALIDINE DERIVATIVE; GLYCOPEPTIDE; GYRASE INHIBITOR; MACROLIDE; NEW DRUG; OXAZOLIDINE DERIVATIVE; PENEM DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STREPTOGRAMIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TRINEM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG STABILITY; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG TOXICITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030660723     PISSN: 13597345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/a704497f     Document Type: Review

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