Antibiotic progress for disease that causes half a million deaths a year
Monday, April 11, 2011 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are making progress in their quest to find an improved antibiotic for a strain of meningitis that results in over half a million deaths a year worldwide. The fungal disease Cryptococcal Meningitis is especially rife in AIDS patients and there are fears that if new drugs cannot be found, it could become untreatable. The results are published in one of the most respected journals in the field of membrane biology - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta Biomembranes. Further experiments will be carried out at STFCs ISIS neutron source this week.