Chapter 12, Problem 50E.1RQ

Summary Introduction

To explain: Why is it often advantageous to modify antibiotics in industrial laboratories?

Introduction: Soil is considered as the major repository of microbes that produce antibiotics, which has the ability to prevent the growth of other microbes. Penicillium, Amycolatopsis, Streptomyces, Bacillus, and Acremonium are some microbial groups from which clinically useful antibiotics have been isolated.