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Discovery of natural compound may help fend off antibiotic resistance of hard-to-treat infections
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Discovery of natural compound may help fend off antibiotic resistance of hard-to-treat infections

The Vanderbilt Laboratory for Biosynthetic Studies, led by Brian Bachmann, professor of chemistry, has discovered a naturally occurring compound that is resilient to antibiotic resistance because of its rare properties. Antibiotic resistance, the ability of bacteria to evade antibiotic treatment, has been identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as one of the...

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Targeting kinetoplastid and apicomplexan thymidylate biosynthesis as antiprotozoal strategy

This article by Dr. Dolores Gonzalez Pacanowska et al. is published in Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2018 BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS Kinetoplastid and apicomplexan parasites include protozoans which are responsible for human diseases, and cause a serious impact on human health and the socioeconomic growth of developing countries. Chemotherapy is the main option to control these pathogenic...