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UConn Researchers Kill MRSA With Tailored Chemistry

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This is pretty cool to read about. Lots of cool things going on at UConn these days:

UConn Researchers Kill MRSA with Tailored Chemistry - UConn Today

UConn medicinal chemists have developed experimental antibiotics that kill MRSA, a common and often deadly bacteria that causes skin, lung, and heart infections. The success is due to their strategy, which found a weakness and exploited it in a way the bacteria should have trouble countering, the researchers report in the Dec. 22 issue of Cell Chemical Biology.

Cases of MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus) are on the rise and increasingly resistant to common antibiotics. The first choice treatment for MRSA, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, is relatively safe and inexpensive. But trimethoprim-resistant MRSA has begun to spread around the globe. Up to 30 percent of infections in sub-Saharan African no longer respond to it, and significant numbers in Europe and Asia as well.
 

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