New hope against superbugs: Promising antibiotic candidate discovered

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Vienna and the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, has discovered saarvienin A, a new type of glycopeptide antibiotic. Their findings, now published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, introduce a compound with strong activity against highly resistant bacterial strains.

Antibiotic-resistant infections are on the rise, threatening to make even common diseases deadly again. Without new antibiotics,…

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