A New Way to Disarm Antibiotic Resistance in Deadly Bacteria

February 22, 2022 • by Marc Airhart
two microscope image of an antibiotic resistant bacterium  on the left it is whole and in the image in the right it has exploded and is dead

An antibiotic resistant bacterium (Klebsiella pneumoniae) is treated solely with the last-resort antibiotic imipenem (left); and with a combination of imipenem and a DsbA inhibitor, causing it to rupture and die (right). Image credit: Nikol Kadeřábková.


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A close-up microscope image of a bacterium that has collapsed and spilled its contents

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