Antibiotics

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The filamentous actinomycetes make around two thirds of all known natural product antibiotics and about half of the clinically used antibiotics.

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Most of these were discovered during the Golden Age which ran from the 1940s to the 1960s.


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Figures are taken from: Hutchings MI, Truman A and Wilkinson B (2019). Antibiotics: past, present and future. Curr. Op. Microbiol. Under review.