FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016

The prospect of once more living in a world where people everywhere die from illnesses which today’s citizens of industrialized countries think of as relatively trifling, such as pneumonia, is indeed a scary one. The findings of this new study raise hope that in the future it will be possible to use bacteriophages that bind to bacterial drug transporters as a therapeutic approach. In combination with traditional antibiotic drugs, they may enable us to combat and contain antibiotic-resistant infections.
The full open-access paper can be read here: doi:10.1038/srep26717
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Written by Janina Ander