Researchers develop vaccine to combat antibiotic resistance

Researchers at Michigan State University and Harvard Medical School are working together to develop a vaccine to fight antibiotic-resistant infections. Due to the overuse of antibiotics, pathogens are rapidly developing resistance to treatments. Antibiotic-resistant infections are estimated to have killed more than a million people worldwide in 2019, according to the World Health Organization, and there are concerns that within a few years most drugs will not be effective. In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers, led by Xufei Huang, a professor at the Michigan State University Research Foundation, describe creating a vaccine candidate for antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Researchers announced several breakthroughs that will help develop the carbohydrate-based vaccine and provide protection against infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The preclinical formulation of the vaccine developed by […]
Source: News Beast

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