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Bye Bye Superbugs? New Antibiotic Is Virtually Resistance-Proof
Its two-pronged attack is almost impossible for bacteria to withstand.
A new class of antibiotics is offering real hope of a response to the problem of antimicrobial resistance, hitting bacteria with a dual-pronged assault that’s almost impossible to combat. University of Illinois Chicago investigators Yury Polikanov, Nora Vázquez-Laslop, and Alexander Mankin, who collaborated on this study, holding a model of a macrolone antibiotic. “By basically hitting two targets at the same concentration, the advantage is that you make it almost impossible for the bacteria to easily come up with a simple genetic defense,” said Yury Polikanov, an associate professor who heads up one of the labs that conducted the work.
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