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Antibiotics

 

Antibiotics are a type of antimicrobial drug used in the treatment and prevention of bacterial infections.

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The frightening emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

17 February 2016 | By ,

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is on the rise and a return to the ‘pre-antibiotic’ era has become a frightening possibility. Various factors are responsible for this situation: the overuse of antibiotics in human medicine and animal husbandry, insufficient public funding for research into fundamental bacteriology including resistance mechanisms, and a…

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Time to renew the antibiotic arsenal

19 January 2016 | By Philippe Villain-Guillot, CEO, Nosopharm

Philippe Villain-Guillot, CEO, Nosopharm, discusses antimicrobial resistance and the challenges facing antibacterial drug discovery and development...

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Nosopharm joins ENABLE to help combat antibiotic resistance

7 December 2015 | By Victoria White

The €100m ENABLE project aims to identify at least three antibacterial lead molecules with promising antibacterial activity, two antibacterial clinical candidate molecules and to enter at least one compound into preclinical and Phase 1 clinical studies...