UIC research helps create new antibiotic that evades bacterial resistance

Scientists at the University of Illinois Chicago and Harvard University have developed an antibiotic that could give medicine a new weapon to fight drug-resistant bacteria and the diseases they cause. The antibiotic, cresomycin, described in Science, effectively suppresses pathogenic bacteria that have become resistant to many commonly prescribed antimicrobial drugs.
Source: World Pharma News - Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news