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  • Drug Discovery
  • Biotechnology

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  • Growing antimicrobial resistance necessitates novel therapeutic strategies.
  • Existing antibiotic classes are becoming ineffective against resistant pathogens.
  • Urgent need for new antibiotics in human medicine.

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  • To highlight innovative approaches in antimicrobial discovery.
  • To identify novel antibiotic candidates using advanced technologies.
  • To explore underexplored environments for new drug scaffolds.

Main Methods:

  • Innovative culturing techniques (iChip, co-culturing).
  • Antibiotic resistance exploitation with diagnostic PCR.
  • Metagenomic mining and metabolomic analyses.
  • Identification of silent gene clusters.

Main Results:

  • Successful identification of novel antibacterial producers.
  • Discovery of the 'antibiotic'ome' from diverse environments.
  • Identification of scaffolds with novel mechanisms of action.
  • Finding candidates with few established resistance determinants.

Conclusions:

  • Modern biotechnological approaches are advancing antimicrobial discovery.
  • Support from government and regulatory changes are essential.
  • Development of targeted, pathogen-specific antimicrobial therapies is feasible.