Research Could Lead To New Non-antibiotic Drugs To Counter Hospital Infections

Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 11:28 in Health & Medicine

Lack of an adequate amount of the mineral phosphate can turn a common bacterium into a killer, according to research. The findings could lead to new drugs that would disarm the increasingly antibiotic-resistant pathogen rather than attempting to kill it.

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