Fighting Deadly Drug Resistant Bacteria in Intestines with New Antibiotic (IMAGE)

Flinders University

Fighting Deadly Drug Resistant Bacteria in Intestines with New Antibiotic

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When doses of a new antibiotic called Ramizol were given to hamsters infected with a lethal dose of the bacteria, a significant proportion of hamsters survived the infection.

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