The increase in drug-resistant , which has become resistant to existing standard-of-care agents, is a major concern, and new antibacterial agents are strongly needed. In this study, we introduced etamycin that showed an excellent activity against . We found that etamycin significantly inhibited the growth of wild-type strain, three subspecies, and clinical isolates in vitro and inhibited the growth of that resides in macrophages without cytotoxicity. Furthermore, the in vivo efficacy of etamycin in the zebrafish () infection model was greater than that of clarithromycin, which is recommended as the core agent for treating infections. Thus, we concluded that etamycin is a potential anti- candidate for further development as a clinical drug candidate.
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Cancer Biology & Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, NY 10065.
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Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei City, Taiwan.
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State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Drug Design and Optimization, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China.
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