title: Endless Resistance. Endless Antibiotics?
abstract: The practice of medicine was profoundly transformed by the introduction of the antibiotics (compounds isolated from Nature) and the antibacterials (compounds prepared by synthesis) for the control of bacterial infection. As a result of the extraordinary success of these compounds over decades of time, a timeless biological activity for these compounds has been presumed. This presumption is no longer. The inexorable acquisition of resistance mechanisms by bacteria is retransforming medical practice. Credible answers to this dilemma are far better recognized than they are being implemented. In this perspective we examine (and in key respects, reiterate) the chemical and biological strategies being used to address the challenge of bacterial resistance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN 46556-5670, USA.
authors.forename: Jed F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN 46556-5670, USA.
authors.forename: Shahriar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mobashery