New Hope in the Fight against Antibiotic-Resistance
In the ninety years since antibiotics were first discovered, they have saved innumerable live. Unfortunately, they have also given rise to new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The issue of antibiotic resistance is so serious that the World Health Organization (WHO) has called it “one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today.” In the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that every year at least 2 million people contract an antibiotic-resistant “superbug” in the US, over 23,000 of them die of it.
However, there is good news.
Research published in Nature Public Journals: Systems Biology and Applications has shown that while single antibiotics may not work against these strains, combinations of antibiotics do.
It had previously been assumed that different antibiotics would act against each other if taken in combination. However, this study found that combinations of four or five different antibiotics worked synergistically against bacteria. Researchers compared the approach to a strategy for attacking a fortress: Using different methods of attack proved more effective than using just one.
While previous tests of antibiotic combinations used only one or two drugs, this study tested more than 18,000 combinations of four and five drugs. The result was worth the effort: 8000 different combinations were found to be effective against the bacteria.
Michael Kurilla, the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Division of Clinical Innovation, said that, “With the specter of antibiotic resistance threatening to turn back healthcare to the pre-antibiotic era, the ability to more judiciously use combinations of existing antibiotics that are singly losing potency is welcome. This work will accelerate the testing in humans of promising antibiotic combinations for bacterial infections that we are ill-equipped to deal with today.”
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