Publication Name	World Journal of Biological Chemistry
Manuscript ID	16830
Country	Germany

Received	2015-01-29 21:33
Peer-Review Started	2015-01-30 19:10
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Return for Revision	2015-03-11 20:06
Revised	2015-03-30 19:32
Second Decision	2015-06-08 11:28
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Category	Allergy
Manuscript Type	Editorial
Article Title	Lack of new antiinfective agents: Passing into the pre-antibiotic age?
Manuscript Source	Invited Manuscript
All Author List	Klaus Brandenburg and Tobias Schürholz
Funding Agency and Grant Number	Funding Agency Grant Number German ministry BMBF 01GUO824 German ministry BMBF 01GUO826
Corresponding Author	Klaus Brandenburg, MS, PhD, Professor, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Leibniz-Zentrum für Medizin und Biowissenschaften, Parkallee 10, D-23845 Borstel, Germany. kbrandenburg@fz-borstel.de
Key Words	Antimicrobial resistance; Antibiotics; Sepsis; Antimicrobial peptides; Lipoproteins; Inflammation; Cytokines; Endotoxins
Core Tip	The dramatic increase in multiresistance of relevant pathogenic bacteria can be assumed to be one of the main global health care problems of the 21st century. At the same time, the development of new antibiotics decreases considerably from which a significant lack in the health supply for combating infections can be scheduled. In this paper, alternative strategies are discussed which are focused mainly on the development and application of antimicrobial peptides. These can easily be synthesized in high amounts under moderate costs, have usually a high therapeutic index, and do not have a tendency for resistance emergence. Recent developments are presented from which it may be deduced that the most serious form of a bacterial infection, sepsis and septic shock, may be treatable in near future.
Publish Date	2015-08-26 11:07
Citation	Brandenburg K, Schürholz T. Lack of new antiinfective agents: Passing into the pre-antibiotic age? World J Biol Chem 2015; 6(3): 71-77
URL	http://www.wjgnet.com/1949-8454/full/v6/i3/71.htm
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.4331/wjbc.v6.i3.71

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