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New breed of antibiotic that can beat MRSA
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:09 PM on 5th August 2010
A family of `super-antibiotics' capable of beating MRSA and other deadly infections has been created by scientists.
In tests, one of the drugs killed strains of the hospital superbug resistant to antibiotics already in use.
Others were more than a match for other potentially lethal germs, including food poisoning bug E coli, and acinetobacter, a soil-dwelling bug that is even harder to treat than MRSA.
MRSA bug Under The Microscope Magnifield
Antibiotic threat: Superbug MRSA could soon be under attack from a new breed of antibiotics
The drugs, details of which emerged last night in the prestigious journal Nature, have been hailed as `an important step forward'.
Bacteria resistant to multiple drugs claim around 25,000 lives a year across the EU.
New treatments could save the taxpayer millions, as well as save lives.
Many superbugs are resistant to all but one or two antibiotics, and with resistance growing all the time, some scientists predict a `medical apocalypse' in which hospital bugs will be completely untreatable.
Drug capsules
Wonder drug: New antibiotics could tackle a host of deadly infections
The `super-antibiotics' work in a similar way to members of a long-standing family of drugs called quinolones, which tackle respiratory and other infections by interfering with an enzyme that many different types of bacteria need to breed.
The new drugs, which are still in the early stages of development, attach to the same enzyme, but in a different place, meaning they can kill bugs that are resistant
to other drugs.
Ted Bianco, of the Wellcome Trust, which part-funded the research, said: `This is an important step forward in the race against antibiotic resistance.'
If the drugs live up to their early promise, the first could be on the market within a decade.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1300484/MRSA-E-Coli-treated-new-breed-antibiotics.html#ixzz0wD83pu6j
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