Good news comes from Britain today. Apparently researchers have found a way to defeat bacteria's currently evolving resistance to antibiotic treatment.
“It is a very significant breakthrough,” said Professor Changjiang Dong, from the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School. “This is really important because drug-resistant bacteria is a global health problem. Many current antibiotics are becoming useless, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. Many bacteria build up an outer defence which is important for their survival and drug resistance. We have found a way to stop that happening,"
The research centers around a bacteria's ability to build an impenetrable wall to keep out antibiotics and they believe that within a few years they will be able to develop a means to switch of this wall-building mechanism, making the bacteria vulnerable once again.
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