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New Superbug-killing Antibiotic Discovered Using AI
Friday May 26, 2023. 08:40 PM , from Slashdot
![]() Antibiotics kill bacteria. However, there has been a lack of new drugs for decades and bacteria are becoming harder to treat, as they evolve resistance to the ones we have. More than a million people a year are estimated to die from infections that resist treatment with antibiotics. The researchers focused on one of the most problematic species of bacteria - Acinetobacter baumannii, which can infect wounds and cause pneumonia. You may not have heard of it, but it is one of the three superbugs the World Health Organization has identified as a 'critical' threat. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/05/26/1713248/new-superbug-killing-antibiotic-discovered-using...
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