Fighting antibiotic resistance—strategies and (pre) clinical developments to find new antibacterials

S Walesch, J Birkelbach, G Jézéquel, FPJ Haeckl… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Antibacterial resistance is one of the greatest threats to human health. The development of
new therapeutics against bacterial pathogens has slowed drastically since the approvals of …

New β-lactam–β-lactamase inhibitor combinations

D Yahav, CG Giske, A Grāmatniece… - Clinical microbiology …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The limited armamentarium against drug-resistant Gram-negative bacilli has led to the
development of several novel β-lactam–β-lactamase inhibitor combinations (BLBLIs). In this …

Asymmetric organocatalysis: an enabling technology for medicinal chemistry

B Han, XH He, YQ Liu, G He, C Peng… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The efficacy and synthetic versatility of asymmetric organocatalysis have contributed
enormously to the field of organic synthesis since the early 2000s. As asymmetric …

[HTML][HTML] Antibiotics in the clinical pipeline as of December 2022

MS Butler, IR Henderson, RJ Capon… - The Journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
The need for new antibacterial drugs to treat the increasing global prevalence of drug-
resistant bacterial infections has clearly attracted global attention, with a range of existing …

Analysis of the clinical pipeline of treatments for drug-resistant bacterial infections: despite progress, more action is needed

MS Butler, V Gigante, H Sati, S Paulin… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
There is an urgent global need for new strategies and drugs to control and treat multidrug-
resistant bacterial infections. In 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a list of …

Epidemiology of β-lactamase-producing pathogens

K Bush, PA Bradford - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY β-Lactam antibiotics have been widely used as therapeutic agents for the past
70 years, resulting in emergence of an abundance of β-lactam-inactivating β-lactamases …

Metallo-β-lactamases in the age of multidrug resistance: from structure and mechanism to evolution, dissemination, and inhibitor design

G Bahr, LJ Gonzalez, AJ Vila - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the major problems in current practical medicine. The
spread of genes coding for resistance determinants among bacteria challenges the use of …

Coronavirus disease 2019, superinfections, and antimicrobial development: what can we expect?

CJ Clancy, MH Nguyen - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) arose at a time of great concern about
antimicrobial resistance (AMR). No studies have specifically assessed COVID-19 …

A decade of FDA-approved drugs (2010–2019): trends and future directions

DG Brown, HJ Wobst - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
A total of 378 novel drugs and 27 biosimilars approved by the US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) between 2010 and 2019 were evaluated according to approval …

Aggregation-induced emission nanoparticles for single near-infrared light-triggered photodynamic and photothermal antibacterial therapy

W Wang, F Wu, Q Zhang, N Zhou, M Zhang, T Zheng… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Phototheranostics is a potential area for precision medicine, which has received increasing
attention for antibacterial applications. Integrating all phototheranostic modalities in a single …