7.345 The War on Superbugs: Antibiotic Development and the Emergence of Drug-Resistant Bacteria, Fall 2015

Bacteria and fungi have produced antibiotics, small molecules that can prevent the growth of or kill bacteria by inhibiting essential biological pathways, as a defense mechanism long before humans walked the earth. The discovery of antibiotics and their implementation in the clinic radically changed...

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Main Authors: Silverman, Julie M, Musial-Siwek, Monika
Language:en-US
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148325