Drug combinations: a strategy to extend the life of antibiotics in the 21st century

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 141-155

  Tyers, Mike ^a   Wright, Gerard D ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOIMIDAZOLE; 5 METHOXYHYDNOCARPIN; 6 FURANYLQUINAZOLINE DERIVATIVE; 7 HYDROXYTROPOLONE; A 22; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPERGILLOMARASMINE A; CARPROFEN; CELECOXIB; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLOMIFENE; CLOSANTEL; LOPERAMIDE; MURGOCIL; PENTAMIDINE; PYRAZOLOPYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; RESERPINE; TAROCIN DERIVATIVE; TICLOPIDINE; TRICYCLIC INDOLE ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WORTMANNIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG CLASSIFICATION; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG USE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRATEGIC PLANNING; THEORETICAL STUDY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMBINATION DRUG THERAPY; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG DISCOVERY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; DRUG SYNERGISM; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS;

EID: 85060614075     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41579-018-0141-x     Document Type: Review

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