Scientists have invented replace antibiotics

Scientists from the Netherlands have created a revolutionary medicine which can be a substitute for antibiotics. This preparation is needed in connection with increasing number of infections that are resistant to this group of drugs drugs.

Antibiotic Resistance

Over the past 10 years, the problem of deadly antibiotic resistant   bacteria began to represent a global crisis that requires from the authorities in many countries joint action. Antibiotics - the greatest invention in the medical field 20 century - can be completely left in the past because of their excessive use and the spread of infections that no longer respond to any new species these drugs.

In the US alone resistant Antibiotic   infections kill 23 000 people a year. But now mankind have hope after Dutch scientists from Micreos biotech company created a medication with which they cured 5 of 6 patients infected with Staphylococcus aureus - one of the most heavy species of bacteria exhibiting resistance to the most powerful antibiotics.

The first clinical trials were quite few in number and limited to patients with eczema, contact dermatitis and other skin infections. But scientists hope that the next experiments confirm the effectiveness of the medication. Antibiotics work by ingress of bacteria, but in recent years, many microorganisms causing such widespread diseases as tuberculosis or salmonella, mutated to develop a more robust cell membrane through which the drug not tested.

Fresh type of medication called Staphefket, working from the outside of bacteria, affecting the the outer cell wall of microorganisms. It uses an enzyme called endolysins, which gradually destroys the wall and thus kills bacteria. According to the creators of the drug under the influence of the drug bacteria lose the ability to evolve and to defend himself because endolysins also evolve along with his carrier. (READ MORE)

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