NEW DRUG PROFILE: TEIXOBACTIN – A SHORT COMMUNICATION

Prof. S. Vedha Pal Jeyamani*, B. Senthilnathan and K. Senthilkumaran

ABSTRACT

Several antibiotics which have been discovered from the natural environment, and the microorganism that produces the antibiotic and its derivatives, are resistant to the antibiotic itself.[1-3] Teixobactin is a recent novel antibiotic discovered without detectable resistance. Teixobactin in a major break of 30 years belongs to a new class of soil dwelling bacterium, provisionally named Eleftheria terrae.[4] It was the first new class of antibiotic isolated with iChip technology which allowed the environmental bacterium to grow and produce, the isolated bacterium were identified subsequently.

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