Pick one of the topics below and write a 1 3 page paper detailing: 1) How the new microbiology technology or antibiotic or drug works. 2) What it may be used for (e.g. what does the device or drug or antibiotic target, what is the chemical structure, how is the technology deployed) to help patient healthcare. 3) What hospitals and clinics will need to do to prepare to successfully offer the new microbiology technology, drug or antibiotic. Phage therapy: Use of bacteriophage as a technology to fight bacterial infections. Antimicrobial synthetic polymers: Guanidinium-functionalized polycarbonates or Ninja polymers. Pathogen specific Monoclonal Antibody therapy for multi drug resistant bacteria. Antimicrobial nanoparticles: metallic, polymeric, lipid based; liposomes, solid lipid nanoparticles, nanostructure lipid carriers. Synthetic retinoid antibiotics. Delafloxacin, a new fluoroquinolone antibiotic. Pretomanid, a new anti-TB antibiotic Antibiotic combinations therapy. Odilorhabdin antibiotics or ODLs, from nematode-associated bacteria. MptpB inhibitors. Peptidomimetics: The New Resistant-Proof(?) Antibiotics If you know of or find an alternative new technology or new antibiotic or new drug you would prefer to write about instead, please discuss it with your professor and get approval to proceed. You might browse google scholar (https://scholar.google.com) or the United States Patent Office website https://www.uspto.gov or go to a science review website like https://sciencedaily.com for ideas and information for a starting point for your writing.

