Platforms for antibiotic discovery

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 371-387

  Lewis, Kim ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AVIBACTAM; BEDAQUILINE; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CASPOFUNGIN; CERULENIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; DAPTOMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; METRONIDAZOLE; MIKAMYCIN B; NALIDIXIC ACID; NATURAL PRODUCT; PLATENSIMYCIN; PRODRUG; PYRAZINAMIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMIDOCHRYSOIDINE; THIOLACTOMYCIN; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DRUG PENETRATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG TARGETING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOIL MICROFLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOMYCETACEAE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DRUG DISCOVERY; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; PRODRUGS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84877279350     PISSN: 14741776     EISSN: 14741784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrd3975     Document Type: Review

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