Western Bats as a Reservoir of Novel Streptomyces Species with Antifungal Activity.

ABSTRACT: At least two-thirds of commercial antibiotics today are derived from Actinobacteria, more specifically from the genus Streptomyces Antibiotic resistance and new emerging diseases pose great challenges in the field of microbiology. Cave systems, in which actinobacteria are ubiquitous and abundant, represent new opportunities for the discovery of novel bacterial species and the study of their interactions with emergent pathogens. White-nose syndrome is an invasive bat disease caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, which has killed more than six million bats in the last 7 years. In this study, we isolated naturally occurring actinobacteria from white-nose syndrome (WNS)-free bats from five cave systems and surface locations in the vicinity in New Mexico and Ar

SUBMITTER: Hamm PS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5311414 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature