Using old antibiotics to treat ancient bacterium—β-lactams for Bacillus anthracis meningitis

Assa Sittner; Amir Ben-Shmuel; Itai Glinert; Elad Bar-David; Josef Schlomovitz; David Kobiler; Shay Weiss; Haim Levy

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228917

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Using old antibiotics to treat ancient bacterium—β-lactams for Bacillus anthracis meningitis

Assa Sittner,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel
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Amir Ben-Shmuel,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel
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Itai Glinert,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel
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Elad Bar-David,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel
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Josef Schlomovitz,

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel
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David Kobiler,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel
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Shay Weiss,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel
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Haim Levy

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: haiml@iibr.gov.il

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1902-8535

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Using old antibiotics to treat ancient bacterium—β-lactams for Bacillus anthracis meningitis

Assa Sittner,
Amir Ben-Shmuel,
Itai Glinert,
Elad Bar-David,
Josef Schlomovitz,
David Kobiler,
Shay Weiss,
Haim Levy

Published: February 13, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228917

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