A new approach for the discovery of antibiotics by targeting non-multiplying bacteria: a novel topical antibiotic for staphylococcal infections.
In a clinical infection, multiplying and non-multiplying bacteria co-exist. Antibiotics kill multiplying bacteria, but they are very inefficient at killing non-multipliers which leads to slow or partial death of the total target population of microbes in an infected tissue. This prolongs the duratio...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010-07-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2910736?pdf=render |