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StaphAseptic™ News
Antibiotics combo helps fight deadly infections
January 27, 2010
The Times of India
Individually, lankacidin and lankamycin, two antibiotics produced naturally by the microbe streptomyces, are marginally effective in warding off pathogens.
However, when used together, the two antibiotics were much more successful in inhibiting growth of dangerous pathogens such as MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and possibly others, says lead researcher Alexander Mankin, professor and associate director of the UIC Centre for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology.
"What we found most amazing is that the two antibiotics appeared to help each other in stopping pathogens from making new proteins and in inhibiting bacterial growth," said Mankin. Lankacidin and lankamycin act upon the ribosomes, the protein-synthesizing factories of the cell.
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