Herein, the emergence and evolution of antibiotics is briefly reviewed, and a select number of total syntheses of naturally occurring antibiotics from the authors’ laboratories are highlighted.

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Further caution with the use of sulbactam as monotherapy is supported by a recent in vitro study, where ampicillin–sulbactam activity was only 6% of the carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii in ...