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Two pivot compounds (QNZ and 0Y5) with biological activity against Staphylococcus aureus were selected. A virtual screening was performed in the MolPort database with a Tanimoto index of 0.5, resulting in 20,000 compounds, 10,000 compounds for each template. Then, methodologies were applied to calculate pharmacokinetic and toxicological parameters using Discovery Studio software; molecular docking via DockThor; lethal dose via ProTOX; lipophilicity, solubility, and Lipinski parameters via SwissADME; in silico prediction of bacterial activity via Way2Drug; theoretical synthetic accessibility via SwissADME and AMBIT-SA; and, finally, molecular dynamics simulations via AMBER 18. After the entire methodological process, 10 compounds were identified with potential results according to the criteria adopted in this study and with possible antimicrobial activity against resistant bacterial strains of S. aureus. 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