https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03988-2
NEWS AND VIEWS03 January 2024
A new type of antibiotic targets a drug-resistant bacterium
Infections caused by drug-resistant strains of the bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii have been hard to treat in the clinic. A new class of antibiotics has been identified with the potential to tackle these microbes.
By
Morgan K. Gugger &
Paul J. Hergenrother
Drug-resistant bacterial infections are a looming threat to global public health and increasingly contribute to the death of infected individuals1. Particularly concerning are illnesses caused by ‘Gram-negative’ bacteria, because these microbes are encased in both inner and outer membranes that are challenging for most antibiotics to cross2,3.....
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