What The World Needs Now: Safe Non-Antibiotic Anti-Infectives

With today’s first line antibiotics slowly losing their ground against nature’s hard- to- kill pathogens, pharmaceutical researchers are looking for new classes of compounds and targets that have low potential for the development of resistance. At the upcoming first-ever joint meeting of the American Society for Microbiology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (48th Annual ICAAC/IDSA 46th Annual Meeting, October 25-28, 2008, in Washington, D.C.), Emeryville, CA.

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Filed under: Biology on October 29th, 2008