The oral streptogramin pristinamycin has been used in Europe in combination with doxycycline to combat MRSA infections. In a small trial of 53 patients, 74% (39 patients) were effectively cured of ...
In this issue, Fussenegger and colleagues have developed such a versatile and complementary system regulated by the streptogramin family of human oral antibiotics. They combined a bacterial ...
Antibiotics that inhibit protein synthesis are known to have some degree of antivirulence effects. Macrolides bind reversibly to 23S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) of the 50S subunit of bacterial ribosome ...