Antibiotic resistance: where do we go next?
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Could a New Antibiotic Kill Bacteria?
There's also been work on a potential new antibiotic derived from a plant toxin. This is early stage research, but it does look quite promising. As well as these kinds of developments we've been talking about, there is another hope on the horizon - something called phages. These are viruses that are harmless to people normally, but they're deadly for bacteria. So there's been a growing interest in using these phages as treatments.
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