LONDON (EFE) .- A group of researchers developed an antibiotic that kills bacteria without them becoming resistant to it, it is claimed in an article published yesterday in the British science journal “Nature”.
The compound was effective against pathogens that have presented resistance to other drugs.
The scientists found that these bacteria would generate any rejection.
Researchers at institutions German university and the United States, christened the new compound as Teixobactin, which bacteria such as staphylococcus and tuberculosis do not generate resistance.
According to experts, which were coordinated by Kim Lewis, professor Northeastern University of Boston, the properties of this compound opens the way to develop antibiotics to prevent resistance.
Lewis said that this situation “is causing a crisis in public health systems”. They have tested the compound in animals and have obtained encouraging results. “This discovery is a promising source of antibiotics in the future and an opportunity to relaunch research in this field.”
As to whether pathogens may show opposition to the antibiotic in the future, scientists recognize in his article that is “difficult” to predict, but that, if they occur, could take several decades to appear.
The motivation of the research, they say, is the rapid resistance to pathogens recorded drugs against. This resistance is faster than the introduction of new antibiotics in the clinical process.
The new antibiotic has these positive effects, combining several objectives.
At a glance
New antibiotic
Teixobactin kills bacteria by destroying the walls of their cells, a method similar to that already used vancomycin, discovered in the 1950s and against which pathogens were not able . to develop resistance but after 30 years
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