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New antibiotic hope in medicine
Tests on animals have shown that kills He bacteria but is harmless to mammalian tissues.
“fights bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and TB “- provides weekly magazine” Nature “study lead author, Kim Lewis of Northeastern University in Boston.
He added that antibiotics were obtained from novel bacterial culture is not in the lab, but in their natural environment – in the soil. Teixobactin does not work for all bacteria, only those so-called gram-positive bacteria.
But – as provide researchers – sensitive bacteria can not develop antibiotic resistance and the resistance is a major threat today, for example in the treatment of tuberculosis.
Now teixobactin must be tested on humans. Doctors have high hopes, because it would be the first effective antibiotic in 1987.
(RZ)
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