New Antibiotic Effective Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria, Study Indicates

CNN (1/3, Musa) reports, “Scientists say they have developed a new type of antibiotic to treat bacteria that is resistant to most current antibiotics and kills a large percentage of people with an invasive infection.” According to the CDC, Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, also known as CRAB, “caused an estimated 8,500 infections in hospitalized patients and 700 deaths” in 2017. However, researchers “say the new antibiotic, zosurabalpin, can effectively kill Acinetobacter baumannii,” and “was effective against more than 100 CRAB clinical samples that were tested, according to the research.” The findings were published in the journal Nature.