Antibiotics products diversification

We will begin by giving a brief overview of foe strategies that may be employed to produce desirable antibiotics. Then we will give a brief review of the history of the production of penicillin. We will foen examine foe mode of action of P-lactam antibiotics and briefly describe foe biosynthetic pathways of P-lactam antibiotic production. Subsequently we will examine, in greater depth, the biotransformation of penicillins. A consideration of cephalsporin production will follow and will be ccMnpared with foe production and diversification of penicillins. In foe final part of this chapter we will briefly describe foe new P-lactams. 

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