New Antibiotic via AI
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 5:15 pm
If this isn't too much spin it looks like good news, "repurposing" n unsuccessful diabetic pharmaceutical for antimicrobial use. Still a long way from patient use, but excellent news if it's effective against TB, the #1 antibiotic resistant bug responsible for more deaths worldwide than the other "superbugs" https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... through-ai Cool name as well!
Tests on bacteria collected from patients showed that halicin killed Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bug that causes TB, and strains of Enterobacteriaceae that are resistant to carbapenems, a group of antibiotics that are considered the last resort for such infections. Halicin also cleared C difficile and multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections in mice.