Resistance to antibiotics has made the treatment of human infectious diseases increasingly more difficult, with many pathogenic bacteria now completely resistant to all useful antibiotics. Actinomycetes are a group of Grampositive, filamentous bacteria well known as a source of antibiotics. Isolation of actinomycetes representing rare
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