Synthetic compound shows promise against multidrug resistance

Antimicrobial resistance directly causes more than 1 million deaths every year and contributes to more than 35 million more, according to the World Health Organization. Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus sp., 2 gram-positive pathogens highly likely to develop resistance to known treatments, can cause dangerous hospital-acquired and community-acquired infections.

This week in Microbiology Spectrum, researchers describe a newly synthesized compound called infuzide that shows activity…

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