Pipeline of known chemical classes of antibiotics

Antibiotics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 500-534

  de Souza Mendes, Cristina D'Urso ^a,b   de Souza Antunes, Adelaide Maria ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INPI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antibacterial; Antibiotic; Clinical trials; R and D

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AVAROFLOXACIN; CADAZOLID; CEFTOLOZANE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CYCLIC LIPOPEPTIDE; DALBAVANCIN; DELAFLOXACIN; ERAVACYCLINE; FINAFLOXACIN; LOTILIBCIN; NEMONOXACIN; NEOMYCIN; OMADACYCLINE; ORITAVANCIN; OZENOXACIN; PLAZOMICIN; PLEUROMUTILIN; POLYMYXIN; RADEZOLID; SOLITHROMYCIN; SULFACTAM; SUROTOMYCIN; TAZOBACTAM; TEDIZOLID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZABOFLOXACIN;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; CLINICAL STUDY; DRUG RESEARCH; HUMAN; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 84907901812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20796382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics2040500     Document Type: Review

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