Scientists develop a fatty 'kryptonite' to defeat multidrug-resistant 'Super bugs'
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
"Super bugs," which can cause wide-spread disease and may be resistant to most, if not all, conventional antibiotics, still have their weaknesses. A team of Canadian scientists discovered that specific mixtures of antimicrobial agents presented in lipid (fatty) mixtures can significantly boost the effectiveness of those agents to kill the resistant bacteria. This discovery was published online in The FASEB Journal.