Research on Antibiotic Screening in Japan over the Last Decade: A Producing Microorganism Approach

Abstract

We surveyed the research activity on antibiotic screening over the last 10 years using data published in the Journal of Antibiotics (1984∼1993) and the Japan Kokai Patent (1983∼1992). Research on new antibiotic screening is very active in Japan, and we considered a survey of these data to be helpful in grasping domestic and international research trends in this field. In this report, we use the term “antibiotics” not in the narrow sense of antimicrobial antibiotics, but rather to mean bioactive microbial products.