Engineered bacterium churns out two new key antibiotics

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 15:56 in Biology & Nature

(PhysOrg.com) -- In recent years, scientists have isolated two potent natural antibiotics — platensimycin and platencin — that are highly effective against bacterial infection, including those caused by the most dreaded drug-resistant microbes.

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