Super antibiotic detection can cure most diseases

US researchers have discovered a type of super antibiotic capable of removing most pathogens, from staphylococcus aureus to bacteria, hidden in the soil.

In the tests, the new antibiotic quickly cured infections that could be fatal. This drug is also effective in fighting pathogens that are hard to destroy, damaging the heart.

Importantly, the new drug can be a powerful weapon in the fight against antibiotic resistance, in which infections that have been easily cured are now transformed into a deadly form of danger after being found. How to avoid the strongest drugs.

In the face of the fact that no new antibiotics have been available for nearly 30 years and the bacteria are now more difficult to destroy, experts have warned that medical treatment may soon be pulled. back to the state of the 19th century.

Dame Sally Davies, a leader of the British Ministry of Health, even described a "apocalyptic perspective" in which, within 20 years, normal surgeries such as hip replacement may also be life-threatening. Relatively small infections are no longer easy to remove.

The new antibiotic, teixobactin, was discovered after British, American and German scientists returned to the basics and studied bacteria from a grassland in Maine, USA.

According to experts, many types of bacteria and fungi produce natural antibiotics to keep them safe and destroy competitors' food and space. Most of the antibiotics we use today come from nature.

However, with the easy-to-study microbes being thoroughly studied and the remaining bacteria in the soil very difficult to cultivate in the laboratory, modern scientists almost missed the way to research. pursue more high-tech approaches.

With the view that land contains even more secrets, researchers from Northwestern University in Boston have invented a device that allows them to nurture and study soil microbes. Of the 10,000 types of culture bacteria, 25 filterable substances that have potential for use such as antibiotics and teixobactin appear to be the most promising of them.

In experiments on mice, in addition to destroying a variety of dangerous pathogenic bacteria, teixobactin can do it without causing side effects. Experts are particularly excited when it is impossible to produce any bacteria that can resist the power of new super antibiotics.

The team claims that teixobactin's mechanism of action makes it difficult for bacteria to find a way to neutralize it. They predict that it will take at least 30 years for the bacteria to develop to develop resistance to this drug.

Experts are improving the formula and hope to be able to start testing human drugs within the next 2 years. If all goes well, teixobactin will be used as an injection and may be available in 2019.