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Nature Medicine 11, 1045 - 1046 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nm1005-1045
Old approach yields new antibiotic
John S Blanchard1
- The author is in the Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA. e-mail: blanchar@aecom.yu.edu
Abstract
Antibiotic discovery has been stalled for well over a decade. The discovery of a new antibiotic with an unexpected mechanism of action could reinvigorate this lagging field (pages 1082–1087).
Only two truly new antibiotics have hit the market since 2000 (refs. 1,2).
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