A team of researchers was able to use it to successfully eradicate MRSA, which is resistant to several widely used antibiotics, in a study on mice and it is hoped it could pave the way for use on humans.
and other microbes due to the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, which encourages microorganisms to evolve into"superbugs".
By swapping certain amino acids on the molecule for cheaper alternatives, they said the cost of materials has been reduced more than 2,000 times. "Our ultimate goal is to have a number of viable drugs from our modular synthetic teixobactin platform which can be used as a 'last line of defence' against superbugs to save lives currently lost due to AMR," Dr Singh said.
Dr Packer said new classes of antibiotics were especially needed to tackle AMR because existing molecules were already familiar to bacteria, making resistance development more likely.
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