Discover New Antibiotics 2016
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
New drugs to treat infections are a subject of great concern. We are slowly losing the use of several classes of antibiotics to treat infections because of the advent of drug resistance. Novel drugs with unique mechanisms of action are needed to combat antibiotic resistance.
Several strategies are discussed on how to cope with this problem:
i) novel strategies being used to identify new antibiotics,
ii) an analysis of techniques being used to assess potential new antibiotics,
iii) elucidation of a new drug's mechanism of action,
iv) an assessment of what happens to a new antibiotic and where is goes in a mammalian system,
v) and determining the mechanisms responsible for resistance or persistence for a new antibiotic.
Antibiotics will publish a Special Issue focusing on the discovery of new antibiotics. It is my pleasure to invite submissions of high quality research based papers related to the topics mentioned above.
Prof. Dr. William R. Schwan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- new strategies to find novel drugs
- discovery of new drugs (isolation, drug characterization, and structure-function analysis)
- determine a new drug's mechanism of action
- determine the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of a new drug
- assessment of resistance to a new drug
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Published Papers
Antibiotics - ISSN 2079-6382