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SUBMITTER: Krause KM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4888811 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Krause Kevin M KM Serio Alisa W AW Kane Timothy R TR Connolly Lynn E LE
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine 20160601 6
Aminoglycosides are natural or semisynthetic antibiotics derived from actinomycetes. They were among the first antibiotics to be introduced for routine clinical use and several examples have been approved for use in humans. They found widespread use as first-line agents in the early days of antimicrobial chemotherapy, but were eventually replaced in the 1980s with cephalosporins, carbapenems, and fluoroquinolones. Aminoglycosides synergize with a variety of other antibacterial classes, which, in ...[more]