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SUBMITTER: Hover BM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5874163 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hover Bradley M BM Kim Seong-Hwan SH Katz Micah M Charlop-Powers Zachary Z Owen Jeremy G JG Ternei Melinda A MA Maniko Jeffrey J Estrela Andreia B AB Molina Henrik H Park Steven S Perlin David S DS Brady Sean F SF
Nature microbiology 20180212 4
Despite the wide availability of antibiotics, infectious diseases remain a leading cause of death worldwide <sup>1</sup> . In the absence of new therapies, mortality rates due to untreatable infections are predicted to rise more than tenfold by 2050. Natural products (NPs) made by cultured bacteria have been a major source of clinically useful antibiotics. In spite of decades of productivity, the use of bacteria in the search for new antibiotics was largely abandoned due to high rediscovery rate ...[more]