THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new antibiotic that reduced or eliminated drug-resistant bacterial infections (MORE THAN 130 multidrug-resistant bacterial strains, in fact) while sparing the gut microbiome!
Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️
Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️
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Now let's just hope that once it (hopefully) becomes available to use in humans, docs won't go crazy with it like they did with azithromycin
https://bsky.app/profile/antimoof.bsky.social/post/3kuo2vpwd5524
I shudder every time I hear a pediatrician writing it for an uncomplicated ear infection
As you probably know, people did die from C-diff.
MRSA was a big one when I worked in healthcare.
When my mom got C.diff she was put on hospice for the first time. We opted to try one more drug and it worked. I sometimes regret it because she lived another 12 years in steep decline.
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07502-0
The study looked at the development of an antibiotic that targets gram-negative bacteria without disturbing the gut microbiome.
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4632606/
Next, researchers examined mouse stool samples to determine how much lolamicin affected the gut microbiome compared to broad-spectrum
Mice treated with lolamicin were also much less likely to experience C. difficile infections than those treated with other antibiotic types after exposure to C.difficle.
Also, which campus, or was it a collab between all three?
@tyrotcm.bsky.social Check this out!
I don't have words. This could easily save my life down the road.
I don't have words. This could easily save my life down the road.
Thanks for sharing! :3
I have brutally bad IBS that started out as a minor inconvenience but amplified permanently any time I've taken antibiotics. If anyone is spared that it would be awesome.
Thank you.