Antimicrobial Drug Discovery Emerging Strategies

One of the scientific highlights of the 20th century was, without doubt, the development of successful prevention and control efforts for infectious diseases. After the development of penicillin and the subsequent development and synthesis of other antimicrobial agents, vaccines and ant...

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Những tác giả chính: Tegos, George, Mylonakis, Eleftherios
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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-371362023-11-11T05:05:15Z Antimicrobial Drug Discovery Emerging Strategies Tegos, George Mylonakis, Eleftherios Discovery Antimicrobial One of the scientific highlights of the 20th century was, without doubt, the development of successful prevention and control efforts for infectious diseases. After the development of penicillin and the subsequent development and synthesis of other antimicrobial agents, vaccines and antiseptics, victory against path- ogens was declared (Sigerist, 1971). By the 1980s, pharmaceutical companies were con- vinced that there were already enough anti- microbial agents – the feeling at the time was that research should get ready to ‘close the book on infectious diseases’ and the empha- sis was shifted to other clinical problems such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. However, the extensive and inappropri- ate use of antimicrobial agents gradually led to the development of pervasive resistance. Penicillin was first put into widespread use in the early 1940s, and by 1944, half of all clini- cal Staphylococcus spp. isolates were resistant to this proclaimed ‘miracle drug’ (Livermore, 2000). Today, infectious disease is the second most important killer in the world, third in developed nations and fourth in the USA behind heart disease, cancer and stroke (Vicente et al., 2006; Kraus, 2008). Worldwide, 17 million peo- ple die each year from bacterial infections and numerous others from viral, fungal and para- sitic diseases (Butler and Bush, 2006). 2014-04-24T03:19:47Z 2014-04-24T03:19:47Z 2012 Book 978 1 84593 943 4 https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/37136 en application/pdf CABI
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topic Discovery
Antimicrobial
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Antimicrobial
Tegos, George
Mylonakis, Eleftherios
Antimicrobial Drug Discovery Emerging Strategies
description One of the scientific highlights of the 20th century was, without doubt, the development of successful prevention and control efforts for infectious diseases. After the development of penicillin and the subsequent development and synthesis of other antimicrobial agents, vaccines and antiseptics, victory against path- ogens was declared (Sigerist, 1971). By the 1980s, pharmaceutical companies were con- vinced that there were already enough anti- microbial agents – the feeling at the time was that research should get ready to ‘close the book on infectious diseases’ and the empha- sis was shifted to other clinical problems such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. However, the extensive and inappropri- ate use of antimicrobial agents gradually led to the development of pervasive resistance. Penicillin was first put into widespread use in the early 1940s, and by 1944, half of all clini- cal Staphylococcus spp. isolates were resistant to this proclaimed ‘miracle drug’ (Livermore, 2000). Today, infectious disease is the second most important killer in the world, third in developed nations and fourth in the USA behind heart disease, cancer and stroke (Vicente et al., 2006; Kraus, 2008). Worldwide, 17 million peo- ple die each year from bacterial infections and numerous others from viral, fungal and para- sitic diseases (Butler and Bush, 2006).
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title Antimicrobial Drug Discovery Emerging Strategies
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