New finding brings hope to the the fight against superbugs

As science and technology advances each day,scientist and researchers are making more improvements and advancements into the research of  drugs.Vancomycin,an antibiotic drug which was prescribed by doctors over the decades for treating infections but later became resistant to superbugs,has been modified to fight infections.


A team of researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in the United States were able to modify the drug to act three times much faster to impede the resistance of the superbugs,thereby making it impossible to resist the drug.

The new study was published in the journal,Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and it highlights the potential of Vancomycin to  have a 1000 fold increase in activity against superbugs.

According to the lead researcher,Dale Boger:

''This increases the durability of this antibiotic.Organisms just can't simultaneously work to find a way around three independent mechanisms of action.

''Even if they found a solution to one of those,the organisms would still be killed by the other two.''

According to the World Health Organization,antibiotic resistance is one of the major health threats globally and with this major breakthrough,it is expected that millions of people will definitely benefit from the new modified Vancomycin.