In soil-dwelling bacteria, scientists find a new weapon to fight drug-resistant superbugs
It's a new class of antibiotic that promises to live up to its rough Latin translation: killer of bad guys.
In a report published this week in the journal Nature Microbiology, researchers describe a never-before-seen antibiotic agent that vanquished several strains of multidrug-resistant bacteria. In rats, the agent - which the researchers dubbed malacidin - attacked and broke down the cell walls of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and cleared the animals' MRSA skin infections within a day.
