New antibiotic from soil microorganisms

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New antibiotic from soil microorganisms
« on: March 04, 2018, 10:21:37 PM »
The discovery of a new antibiotic class from soil bacteria is reported online this week in Nature Microbiology. This class, called malacidins, kills several multidrug-resistant, disease-causing bacteria - including the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) skin infection in rats.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-018-0110-1
Md. Mahmodul Islam
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Daffodil International University