Bacteria Discovered In Irish Soil Kills Four Drug-Resistant Superbugs

March 18th, 2019

Via: NBC:

The researchers first tried the newly discovered strain of Streptomyces on some garden variety bacteria. In their petri dish experiment, “it knocked them out,” Quinn said. “Then we thought we’d take it one step further and find some multi-resistant organisms.”

The bacteria in the experiment killed four out of the top six organisms that are resistant to antibiotics, including MRSA.

“It’s quite surprising,” said Quinn.

One Response to “Bacteria Discovered In Irish Soil Kills Four Drug-Resistant Superbugs”

  1. rotger says:

    Your reader might also want to read about “microbial dark matter”. Basicly, they are microbes who don’t grow in commonly used petry dish. Their seems to be a lot of them and they are not very well known.

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