Approach to Searching for the Producers of Antibiotics That Overcome Drug Resistance of Microorganisms

Currently, the problem of antibiotic resistance of opportunistic and pathogenic microorganisms is extremely urgent. In order to find new effective natural antibiotics, it is necessary to intensify the search process. In the gradual selection of the most promising producers, we introduced the stage of determining the antibiotic activity of the culture fluid of the studied natural strains against the clinical isolates of hospital microorganisms with multiple resistance to medical antibiotics. Determining the species affiliation of potential producers allows to select those producers of a particular species that differ in the antimicrobial spectrum of activity from those described in the literature. Four strains of actinomycetes that showed activity against resistant clinical isolates of yeast Candida albicans, C.famata, C.parapsilosis and Cryptococcus neoformans were selected, namely: Nocardia soli INA 01217, Streptomyces bottropensis INA 01214, S.chromofuscus INA 01211 and S.netropsis INA 01190. The N.soli INA 01217 strain also shows antibiotic activity against the Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli ATCC 25922. These strains of actinobacterial producers were selected for subsequent chemical studies of the antimicrobial compounds formed by them.

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