Novel Mechanisms of Action for Anti-bacterial Drugs
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 648
Special Issue Editor
Interests: drug discovery; anti-staphylococcal drugs; bacterial pathogenesis; two-component systems; uropathogenic Escherichia coli
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Dear Colleagues,
Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem among bacterial populations. There is a dire need for new antibiotics to combat the antibiotic resistance problem. Many new drugs being developed are derivatives of older antibiotics that have the same mechanism of action. Ideally, new antibiotics with novel mechanisms of action could help to minimize the antibiotic resistance problem associated with bacteria. This Special Issue will focus on current research that is involved in characterizing new anti-bacterial drugs with mechanisms of action that are distinct from approved drugs on the market.
Prof. William R. Schwan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mechanism of action
- anti-bacterial drugs
- antibiotics
- novel drugs
- novel scaffolds
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