Actinomycetes in Marine and Extreme Environments

The discovery and development of antibiotics has been one of the most significant advances in medicine. In a golden era lasting from the 1940s to the late 1960s, antibiotic research provided mankind with a wide range of structurally diverse and effective agents for the treatment of microbial infections. Since then, actinomycetes, most notably members of the genus Streptomyces , have uninterruptedly proved to be a particularly rich source of antibiotics and other therapeutic and biotechnologicall