JOURNAL ARTICLE

Screening of Preselected Libraries Targeting Mycobacterium abscessus for Drug Discovery

Adrian RichterAngelika StrauchJoseph D. ChaoMary KoYossef Av‐Gay

Year: 2018 Journal:   Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Vol: 62 (9)   Publisher: American Society for Microbiology

Abstract

Mycobacterium abscessus is intrinsically resistant to many antimycobacterial antibiotics, which presents serious problems in therapy. Here, we describe the development of a novel phenotype-based microscopic and computerized imaging drug screening approach.

Keywords:
Mycobacterium abscessus Antimycobacterial Drug discovery Phenotypic screening Mycobacterium Antibiotics Drug Computational biology Mycobacterium tuberculosis Microbiology Medicine Biology Phenotype Bioinformatics Pharmacology Bacteria Tuberculosis Genetics Pathology

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Topics

Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
Health Sciences →  Medicine →  Epidemiology
Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
Health Sciences →  Medicine →  Infectious Diseases
Infectious Diseases and Mycology
Health Sciences →  Veterinary →  Small Animals
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