Abstract:
:Antibiotic drug discovery has been an essential field of research since the early 1900s, but the threat from infectious bacteria has only increased over the decades because of the emergence of widespread multidrug resistance. In this review, we discuss the recent advances in natural product, computational and medicinal chemistry that have reinvigorated the field of antibiotic drug discovery while giving perspective on how easily, both in cost and in expertise, these methods can be implemented by other researchers with the goal of increasing the number of scientists contributing to this public health crisis.
journal_name
Future Med Chemjournal_title
Future medicinal chemistryauthors
Murphy KE,Sloan GF,Lawhern GV,Volk GE,Shumate JT,Wolfe ALdoi
10.4155/fmc-2020-0247subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-11-01 00:00:00pages
2067-2087issue
22eissn
1756-8919issn
1756-8927journal_volume
12pub_type
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