but antibiotics exist in nature as well. In fact, most of the antibiotics used today are based on compounds scientists have found in nature [1]. To this day, nature still provides some of the most ...

The antibiotics market generated sales of US$42 billion in 2009 globally, representing 46% of sales of anti-infective agents (which also include antiviral drugs and vaccines) and 5% of the global ...

This approach makes available a huge previously untapped source of natural antibiotics, as only about 1% of microorganisms in any environmental sample can be cultured using existing methods.

A recent study by a team from Chiba University has demonstrated a promising approach for fighting antibiotic resistance by identifying a compound, V-161, that inhibits a sodium-pumping enzyme critical ...