2024-01-03 19:29:26
DECRYPTION – Identified among 45,000 compounds, zosurabalpin targets a particularly resistant bacteria.
Faced with the massive use of antibiotics, bacteria are constantly developing new defense strategies to protect themselves, to the point of sometimes becoming completely resistant to them. Against these bacteria, treatments work less and less, leaving many patients in a therapeutic impasse. Every year, this antibiotic resistance is directly involved in 1.3 million deaths worldwide.
THE “multi-resistant” strains are the most problematic because they acquire resistance to several families of antibiotics. This is mainly the case for Gram negative (Gram-) bacteria, of which Acinetobacter baumannii which particularly affects hospitals. This bacteria causes infections including pneumonia, meningitis and urinary infections. Considered a serious threat by the WHO, it is one of the so-called “ESKAPE” pathogens which effectively escape the activity of antimicrobial agents…
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