Antibiotic resistance killed 1.3 million people in 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LClYSNvyQ0 According to an unprecedented study, 1.3 million deaths could be directly attributed to antimicrobial resistance in 2019. What’s more, another 3.65 million deaths involved people with diseases that showed some form of antimicrobial resistance.The Resident breaks it down.

New antibiotic unearthed from the dirt

Scrutinizing soil samples, US researchers have discovered a new class of antibiotics capable of killing drug-resistant, disease-causing bacteria. This brand-new antibiotic class, called malacidins (short for metagenomic acidic lipopeptide antibiotic-cidins) has been isolated from bacteria that live in soil. Dr. Sean Brady …

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