Adelaide researchers have developed and patented a novel approach to fight superbugs, like golden staph, by targeting the bugs’ favourite food—iron.
Superbugs, or antibiotic-resistant bacteria, cause 700,000 deaths globally every year as existing antibiotics can’t effectively kill them.
New weapons are needed to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Dr Katharina Richter and colleagues from the University of Adelaide have commenced the first human trials of the treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
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