TECHNION-ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have developed a technique to measure the long-term effects of antibiotic combinations, or cocktails. These combinations are of serious interest to the scientific and medical communities because the use of single antibiotics often leads to the rapid development of bacterial resistance to...
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New resistance-busting antibiotic combination could extend the use of ‘last-resort’ antibiotics
Scientists have discovered a new potential treatment that has the ability to reverse antibiotic resistance in bacteria that cause conditions such as sepsis, pneumonia, and urinary tract infections. Carbapenems, such as meropenem, are a group of vital often ‘last-resort’ antibiotics used to treat serious, multi-drug resistant infections when other antibiotics, such as penicillin, have failed. But some...
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Peptides+antibiotic combination may result in a more effective treatment for leishmaniasis
UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA IMAGE: SCHEMATIC REPRESENTATION OF HOW THE CONJUGATE OF THE PEPTIDE + THE DRUG MANAGES TO ENTER INSIDE THE CELL OF THE PARASITE TO ELIMINATE IT (UAB) Leishmaniasis is caused by the protozoan Leishmania parasites which are transmitted by the bite of an infected sandfly. Although in rich countries this disease mainly...