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New Antibiotic Offers Major Breakthrough for Medicine

| January 8, 2015 Comment

New Antibiotic Offers Major Breakthrough for Medicine – A handful of dirt from a field has yielded what may be the first of a new family of antibiotics. Early tests suggest this one has the potential to be especially powerful, providing a new weapon against the growing threat of drug-resistant superbugs.

Scientists at Northeastern University in Boston and a small company called NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals used a new method to find the compound which appears to bypass the many different tricks that germs have for getting around the effects of antibiotics. Tests in mice suggest that the compound which has been named teixobactin, works to kill a wide range of bacteria, from staphylococcus to drug-resistant tuberculosis.

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