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ReviewPerspectives in medicinal chemistry2014

Antibiotics and bacterial resistance in the 21st century.

Richard J Fair, Yitzhak Tor

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Review in Perspectives in medicinal chemistry, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 689 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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689citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

689 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Richard J FairDepartment for Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Berlin, Germany.
Yitzhak TorDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Funding

Fluorescent Nucleosides and OligonucleotidesR01GM069773 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI TOR, YITZHAK · 2004 to 2020
$5.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM069773
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dangerous, antibiotic resistant bacteria have been observed with increasing frequency over the past several decades. In this review the factors that have been linked to this phenomenon are addressed. Profiles of bacterial species that are deemed to be particularly concerning at the present time are illustrated. Factors including economic impact, intrinsic and acquired drug resistance, morbidity and mortality rates, and means of infection are taken into account. Synchronously with the waxing of bacterial resistance there has been waning antibiotic development. The approaches that scientists are employing in the pursuit of new antibacterial agents are briefly described. The standings of established antibiotic classes as well as potentially emerging classes are assessed with an emphasis on molecules that have been clinically approved or are in advanced stages of development. Historical perspectives, mechanisms of action and resistance, spectrum of activity, and preeminent members of each class are discussed.

Indexed as

antibiotic resistance mechanismsantibioticsdrug-resistant bacterianovel antibiotic targets

Identifiers

PMID25232278
PMCPMC4159373

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