Humans, and the microbes that live inside us, could be the source of the next generation of antibiotics. German researchers just discovered an antibiotic produced by bacteria that inhabit our noses. This new antibiotic can kill MRSA, the poster child for drug resistance and the culprit behind the most pernicious hospital-acquired staph infections. Overuse and poor compliance led to antibiotic resistance. MRSA infection kills around 20,000 people each year. Around 30 percent of people have the bacteria species that includes MRSA, S. aureus, in their noses right now. Some people are prone to staph infections and other people are relatively resistant, part of that is our immune system, and part of it is the other microbes that we carry around with us. And it’s those other microbes, the German team found, that strike MRSA dead.
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