Broad spectrum antimicrobial activities from spore-forming bacteria isolated from the Vietnam Sea.

ABSTRACT: The widespread occurrence of pathogenic bacteria resistant to last-line antibiotics has resulted in significant challenges in human and veterinary medicine. There is an urgent need for new antimicrobial agents that can be used to control these life threating pathogens. We report the identification of antimicrobial activities, against a broad range of bacterial pathogens, from a collection of marine-derived spore-forming bacteria. Although marine environments have been previously investigated as sources of novel antibiotics, studies on such environments are still limited and there remain opportunities for further discoveries and this study has used resources derived from an under-exploited region, the Vietnam Sea. Antimicrobial activity was assessed against a panel of Gram-positive and Gram

SUBMITTER: Chau KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7571411 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature