New Antibiotic Targets Antibiotic Resistance

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Decades-long quest leads to new antibiotic compounds

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A new antibiotic should be largely impervious to the tricks that bacteria have evolved to become resistant to other drugs.

The new compound proved to be effective against a wide range of bacteria, including Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus.

A new approach to antibiotics is sorely needed because many common drugs are losing their punch.

Antibiotics used to be the backbone of the pharmaceutical industry, but now it's an orphan class of drugs.

Wencewicz amassed a collection of candidate compounds that he carried with him as his career took him to the University of Notre Dame , Harvard , and eventually WashU..

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