| Antibiotic Resistance |
Part II: How are antibiotics discovered? 12 classes of antibiotics were discovered before 1970 and since then only two. 1935 Sulfonamides 1941 Penicillins 1944 Aminoglycosides 1945 Cephalosporins 1949 Chloramphenicol 1950 Tetracyclines 1952 Marcolides 1956 Glycopeptides 1957 Rifamyxins 1959 Nitroimidiazoles 1962 Quinolones 1968 Trimethoprim 1969 �We can close the books on infectious diseases', US Surgeon General 2000 Oxazolidinones 2003 Lipopeptides The rise of antibiotic resistance has made it important to discover new antibiotics. These activities explore that topic. Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 |
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