Since
the appearance of penicillin in 1928, antibiotics have saved a lot
of people’s lives. However, with overuse and misuse, modern human
beings have developed resistance to them, and using antibiotics
has become increasingly ineffective over time. So many researchers
and other professionals in the field have been desperately seeking
for alternative solutions. Recently, a new antibiotic with no sign
of developing resistance has been discovered in the United States.
It is known to be as effective as the previous ones.
Dr. Kim Lewis’s research team at Northeastern’s Antimicrobial Discovery
Center found the new antibiotic called teixobactin by using a special
device to grow uncultured bacteria from their soil sample. Because
it had been known that the bacteria could not be grown in lab settings,
it was almost the first time that they were studied as a source
of antibiotics. During the team’s experiment, infected mice were
completely cured without developing resistance or any side effects
after teixobactin was injected to their bodies.
Lewis’s team expects that, in human bodies, teixobactin will work
effectively against pneumonia, bacterial meningitis, tuberculosis,
and especially all the MRSA-related deadly infections, which one
million people in America suffer from every year.
Since
the appearance of penicillin in 1928, antibiotics have saved a lot
of people’s lives. However, with overuse and misuse, modern human
beings have developed resistance to them, and using antibiotics
has become increasingly ineffective over time. So many researchers
and other professionals in the field have been desperately seeking
for alternative solutions. Recently, a new antibiotic with no sign
of developing resistance has been discovered in the United States.
It is known to be as effective as the previous ones.