July 2003
Busting Up Bacterial Gangs
New antibiotics that disrupt microbial communication could help cystic fibrosis patients.
By Rebecca Zacks
By speaking the language of bacteria, researchers from the State University of New York at Buffalo have made a critical advance in the development of what could be a new class of antibiotics. Such drugs could eventually combat a host of currently incurable infections-including those caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that chronically infects nearly 70 percent of cystic-fibrosis patients.
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