Promising agents burst through 'superbug' defenses to fight antibiotic resistance
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 14:50
in Health & Medicine
In the fight against 'superbugs,' scientists have discovered a class of agents that can make some of the most notorious strains vulnerable to the same antibiotics that they once handily shrugged off. The report on the promising agents called metallopolymers -- large, metal-containing molecules -- demonstrated that they evaded the bacteria's defensive enzymes and destroyed its protective walls, causing the bacteria to burst.