I find this most interesting as the last antibiotic was develop by a drug company at a research cost of 100 million dollars. After their discovery, they commented that they would no longer do any further research with antibiotics. It was just too expensive, with so little in return, as far a payback. Best Wishes In a message dated 3/12/2014 1:41:20 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
http://news.nd.edu/news/46745-notre-dame-chemists-discover-new-class-of-anti biotics/ A team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by _Mayland Chang_ (http://chemistry.nd.edu/people/mayland-chang/) and_Shahriar Mobashery_ (http://chemistry.nd.edu/people/shahriar-mobashery/) have discovered a new class of antibiotics to fight bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other drug-resistant bacteria that threaten public health. Their research is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in an article titled “_Discovery of a New Class of Non-beta-lactam Inhibitors of Penicillin-Binding Proteins with Gram-Positive Antibacterial Activity_ (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja500053x?prevSearch=%5BContrib%3A+Mobashery%5D&searchHistoryKey) .”
