Narrow spectrum antibiotic kills pathogens without killing good bacteria
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 - 10:11
in Health & Medicine
The problem with broad spectrum antibiotics is that they kill good bacteria along with the bad. But a new antibiotic, Debio 1452, which is narrowly targeted at Staphilococcal pathogens, caused almost no harm to the gut microbiome of mouse models, while conventional broad spectrum antibiotics caused major damage.