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The role of genomics in antimicrobial discovery
13 Mar 2003
Abstract excerpt
The majority of today’s most effective classes of antimicrobials originated many decades ago as natural products isolated from soil-colonizing bacteria and fungi. Several of these antibiotics were amenable to semi-synthetic chemistry, and as a result the antimicrobial industry has excelled at fine-tuning these existing classes of antibiotics to improve their spectrum, efficacy and safety. Conversely, there are...
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