Tag: Infectious Disease Society of America

• Wednesday, July 31st 2013 - 18:13 UTC

  Marine antibiotic compound, anthracimycin could help fight new ‘super-bugs’

  

  A completely new and unusual antibiotic compound has been extracted from a marine micro-organism found in sediments off the coast of California. The discovery of genuinely novel antibiotics is rare, and experts say resistance to the drugs poses a grave threat to human health.