title: Small steps to new drugs for bugs.
abstract: Governments, academics and industry are beginning to listen to the medical communities call for new anti-bacterials. This special issue brings together diverse review articles on topics from economics and pricing to new discovery methods.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA.
authors.forename: Roberta J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Melander
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Selwood
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D015195:Drug Design; D055808:Drug Discovery / Q000639:trends*; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents
keywords: antibacterial drug discovery; antibiotic resistance; novel antibacterial strategies