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Compound Fisetin
Chandramouli Chiruta, David Schubert, Richard Dargusch, and Pamela Maher*
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037,
United States
J. Med. Chem., 2012, 55 (1), pp 378389
DOI: 10.1021/jm2012563
Publication Date (Web): December 20, 2011
Copyright 2011 American Chemical Society
1. Sina Kummer1,
2. Wolfgang Ruth1,
3. Oliver Khn2 and
4. Udo Kragl1,*
DOI: 10.1002/elan.201300631
Issue
Electroanalysis
DOI: 10.1039/JR9550000862
Abstract:
Each year in the United States, at least 2 million people become infected with bacteria that
are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die each year as a direct result of
these infections (Threat report 2013). Vancomycin is an FDA approved antibiotic and is
growing importance in the treatment of hospital infections, with particular emphasis on its
value to fight against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The increasing
use of vancomycin to treat infections caused by the Gram-positive MRSA in the 1970s
selected for drug-resistant enterococci, less potent than staphylococci but opportunistic in
the space vacated by other bacteria and in patients with compromised immune systems.
The dramatic rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria over the past two decades has stressed the
need for completely novel classes of antibacterial agents. This paper reports the recent
patent review on the strategy for finding novel quercetinglycoside type antibacterial agents
against vancomycin-resistant bacterial strains.