Drug Combination (IMAGE)

WashU Medicine

Drug Combination

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Using three antibiotic drugs thought to be useless against MRSA infection -- piperacillin and tazobactam (bottle on left) and meropenem -- Washington University researchers, led by Gautam Dantas, Ph.D., have killed the deadly staph infection in culture and in laboratory mice.

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Robert Boston

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