Introduction The human defense against microorganisms dates back to the ancient
civilizations, with attempts to use substances from vegetal, animal, or inorganic origin to fight …

Future Antibacterial Strategies: From Basic Concepts to Clinical Challenges | The Journal of
Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content Advertisement Oxford Academic …

The discovery and development of antimicrobials is one of the miracles of modern science
and has positively impacted human health care globally. Unfortunately, antibiotics became a …

While newly developed technologies have revolutionized the classical approaches to
combating infectious diseases, the difficulties associated with developing novel …

The antibiotics have represented a great revolution for humankind, the development after
the World War II of a magic bullet (the antibiotic molecule), as imagined by Paul Erlich, the …

Reports on the emergence and prevalence of resistant bacterial infections in hospitals and
communities raise concerns that we may soon no longer be able to rely on antibiotics as a …

Dangerous, antibiotic resistant bacteria have been observed with increasing frequency over
the past several decades. In this review the factors that have been linked to this …

The advantages of antibiotics have been most clearly seen in those acute bacterial
infections which had a high mortality before the introduction of antibiotics. The reality of the …

The discovery and development of antibacterial drugs in the twentieth century were major
scientific and medical achievements that have had profound benefits for human society …

For thousands of years people were delivered helplessly to various kinds of infections,
which often reached epidemic proportions and have cost the lives of millions of people. This …