Actinobacteria and Myxobacteria Important Resources for Novel Antibiotics

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: actinomycetes; antibiotic biosynthesis; antimicrobial; antioxidant; antivirals; Biology, life sciences; cytotoxicity; diversity; Ebola; enzyme inhibition; GC-MS; hepatitis viruses; HiTES; HIV; marine actinobacteria; Mathematics and Science; myxobacteria; new antibiotics; polyketide synthases (PKSs); polyketides; pyrrolopyrazines; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; secondary metabolite; secondary metabolites; silent biosynthetic pathways; Streptomyces; Streptomyces sp; translation inhibitors; uncultured; γ-butyrolactones
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03943-530-2
• ISBN: 9783039435296; 9783039435302; 3039435302; 3039435299

Bacterial infections cause millions of deaths globally, particularly in children and the elderly, and four of the 10 leading causes of death are infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries. The continuous use of antibiotics has resulted in multi-resistant bacterial strains all over the world, such as Community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs), and, as expected, hospitals have become breeding grounds for human-associated microorganisms, especially in critical care units.