Do We Need New Antibiotics?

0340931 - MBÚ 2010 RIV KR eng A - Abstract
Spížek, Jaroslav - Novotná, Jitka - Janata, Jiří
Do We Need New Antibiotics?
Annual World Congress of Industrial Biotechnology 2009 /2./. Seoul: COEX Convention and Exhibition Center, 2009. s. 218-218.
[Annual World Congress of Industrial Biotechnology 2009 /2./. 05.04.2009-07.04.2009, Seoul]
R&D Projects: GA AV ČR IAA500200810
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50200510
Keywords : antibiotics
Subject RIV: EE - Microbiology, Virology

When antibiotics were introduced to the clinical practice, they became miraculous drugs. Their use resulted in a dramatic decrease of infectious diseases and mortality caused by pathogenic microorganisms. However, during the several last years an evenly dramatic increase in antibiotic resistance has been observed and some infections are becoming, once again, untreatable. Should we thus return to the pre-antibiotic era? Even if bacterial strains resistant to most antibiotics exist they are still in minority and most bacteria are sensitive. Nevertheless, new antibacterial compounds are required to treat particularly dangerous and multiply resistant strains. Several approaches are currently used to discover new natural antimicrobial compounds or at least new derivatives of known compounds
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