Different drugs for bad bugs: Antivirulence strategies in the age of antibiotic resistance

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 457-471

  DIckey, Seth W ^a   Cheung, Gordon Y C ^a   Otto, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIVIRULENCE AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG TARGETING; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; THEORY; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIUM; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG EFFECTS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 85015935510     PISSN: 14741776     EISSN: 14741784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrd.2017.23     Document Type: Review

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