Fighting antibiotic resistance—strategies and (pre) clinical developments to find new antibacterials

S Walesch, J Birkelbach, G Jézéquel, FPJ Haeckl… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Antibacterial resistance is one of the greatest threats to human health. The development of
new therapeutics against bacterial pathogens has slowed drastically since the approvals of …

[HTML][HTML] Antibiotics in the clinical pipeline as of December 2022

MS Butler, IR Henderson, RJ Capon… - The Journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
The need for new antibacterial drugs to treat the increasing global prevalence of drug-
resistant bacterial infections has clearly attracted global attention, with a range of existing …

Natural products as sources of new drugs over the nearly four decades from 01/1981 to 09/2019

DJ Newman, GM Cragg - Journal of natural products, 2020 - ACS Publications
This review is an updated and expanded version of the five prior reviews that were
published in this journal in 1997, 2003, 2007, 2012, and 2016. For all approved therapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] The science of antibiotic discovery

K Lewis - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
We are experiencing an antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis, brought on by the drying up of
the antibiotic discovery pipeline and the resulting unchecked spread of resistant pathogens …

[HTML][HTML] Natural products in drug discovery: advances and opportunities

AG Atanasov, SB Zotchev, VM Dirsch… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Natural products and their structural analogues have historically made a major contribution
to pharmacotherapy, especially for cancer and infectious diseases. Nevertheless, natural …

A synthetic antibiotic class overcoming bacterial multidrug resistance

MJ Mitcheltree, A Pisipati, EA Syroegin, KJ Silvestre… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The dearth of new medicines effective against antibiotic-resistant bacteria presents a
growing global public health concern. For more than five decades, the search for new …

A new antibiotic selectively kills Gram-negative pathogens

Y Imai, KJ Meyer, A Iinishi, Q Favre-Godal, R Green… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The current need for novel antibiotics is especially acute for drug-resistant Gram-negative
pathogens,. These microorganisms have a highly restrictive permeability barrier, which limits …

Zinc-doped Prussian blue enhances photothermal clearance of Staphylococcus aureus and promotes tissue repair in infected wounds

J Li, X Liu, L Tan, Z Cui, X Yang, Y Liang, Z Li… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The application of photothermal therapy to treat bacterial infections remains a challenge, as
the high temperatures required for bacterial elimination can damage healthy tissues. Here …

Two-dimensional antibacterial materials

B Li, Y Luo, Y Zheng, X Liu, L Tan, S Wu - Progress in Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Diseases caused by pathogens continue to threaten the health of people around the world,
especially with the emergence of drug resistance. Therefore, there is an urgent need to …

Considerations and caveats in combating ESKAPE pathogens against nosocomial infections

YX Ma, CY Wang, YY Li, J Li, QQ Wan… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
ESKAPE pathogens (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella
pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter …