Using artificial intelligence, researchers say, they’ve found a new type of antibiotic that works against a particularly menacing drug-resistant bacteria.
When they tested the antibiotic on the skin of mice that were experimentally infected with the superbug, it controlled the growth of the bacteria, suggesting that the method could be used to create antibiotics tailored to fight other drug-resistant pathogens. The researchers also tested the antibiotic against 41 different strains of antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii.
A recent study of hospital patients with Actinetobacter baumanii infections that were resistant even to powerful carbapenem antibiotics found that 1 in 4 had died within a month of their diagnosis. For the new study, Stokes and lab teamed up with researchers from the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard.
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