Bribing bacteria to play nicely is good for everyone
Thursday, August 9, 2018 - 13:00
in Health & Medicine
Researchers report that giving mice dietary iron supplements enabled them to survive a normally lethal bacterial infection and resulted in later generations of those bacteria being less virulent. The approach demonstrates in preclinical studies that non-antibiotic-based strategies -- such as nutritional interventions -- can shift the relationship between the patient and pathogens away from antagonism and toward cooperation.