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Ecology and physiology of infectious bacteria--implications for biotechnology
Brenda A Wilson1, Abigail A Salyers
1Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, 601 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. bawilson@life.uiuc.edu
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
|August 16, 2002
Abstract:
Escalating incidents of life-threatening infections by antibiotic-resistant bacteria in recent years have provided strong impetus to discover new antibiotics and alternative treatment modalities. The need to couple information about bacterial physiology and ecology with innovative technologies will become ever more critical in the search for new antibiotics and for other therapies, including probiotics, improved vaccines, alternative antimicrobials and antitoxins.