University of Illinois Chicago researchers developed a dual-action antibiotic that makes bacterial resistance to drugs nearly impossible.
Bacterial infections have a fix. Get the right antibiotic and the correct course of treatment, and you'll kill the bacteria and stop the illness. That's how it should work in theory. In practice, bacteria are trying to survive and have started developing antibiotic resistance. That can endanger lives, with the World Health Organization calling bacterial resistance 'one of the top global public health and development threats.
The macrolones can also interfere with the DNA structure of bacteria in a similar way current fluoroquinolones act. That's another type of widely used antibiotic. The UIC researchers discovered that the macrolones can bind with the ribosome more tightly than macrolides. The ribosome is the cell structure that produces proteins. Moreover, the macrolones were able to block ribosomes inside bacterial strains that are already resistant to macrolids.
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