Current Issue : January-March Volume : 2016 Issue Number : 1 Articles : 1 Articles
Antibiotics are an important class among the series of researched and developed molecules and used as treatment therapeutics, thus have revolutionized the medical as well as pharmaceutical industry. Since the time penicillin's have been discovered, it has become an important tool to deal with infections, affecting the people and community we live with. With ever growing complexicity involved in dealing with infections effectively, there is need to improve the present available treatment options for the medical community. The two driving factors for development and advancement of the present antibiotic treatments are, 1. Increasing resistance against the available molecules to deal with infections, 2. High-end research driven activities to discover and develop newer classes of antibiotics which are not prone to resistance development. With new FDA guidelines, which are now highly stringent, it has raised "tensions and burden" on the research and development communities. The present review focuses on very important class of antibiotics available to us, the cephalosporins. Like penicillin's even cephalosporins have become equally important therapeutics to deal with the growing nature of infections in our present world. The review focuses on the older and newer discoveries in cephalosporins, in molecular terms, thus important for understanding of its nature for the drug industry and the healthcare practitioners as a whole....
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