Inhibiting the copper efflux system in microbes as a novel approach for developing antibiotics.

Five out of six people receive at least one antibiotic prescription per year. However, the ever-expanding use of antibiotics in medicine, agriculture, and food production has accelerated the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which, in turn, made the development of novel antibiotics based o...

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Main Authors: Aviv Meir, Veronica Lepechkin-Zilbermintz, Shirin Kahremany, Fabian Schwerdtfeger, Lada Gevorkyan-Airapetov, Anna Munder, Olga Viskind, Arie Gruzman, Sharon Ruthstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227070