Matthew Cooper, Prof. Institute for Molecular Bioscience at The University of Queensland, Australia, has written a very informative article about why we are dangerously close to the edge of a return to the pre-antibiotic era, when even simple infections caused death:
With our increased risk of infection and difficulty recovering from them without antibiotic, help due to our compromised immune system, let's hope that the efforts of scientists and governments are successful.
Prior posts on this important topic:
Antibiotic resistance now 'global threat', WHO warns
I just hope the new antiobiotics are not over priced. They can make their money on quantities. Maybe once the first drug makes it through, the next trials are shorter, too.
More on Teixobactin and how this might be the harbinger of the next generation of antibiotics, from Andrew Beattie, Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University, Australia:
(New Scientist article viewable with free registration)
"Over half of all drugs on the market are either derived from or inspired by plants, animals or bacteria – aspirin is extracted from the bark of the willow tree, penicillin comes from a fungus, and we have soil bacteria to thank for many antibiotics.
Some of these discoveries were happy accidents, but traditionally pharmaceutical companies went foraging for medicinal treasures in remote locations – a practice known as bioprospecting. Such expeditions have struck gold in the past: vinblastine, a chemotherapy drug used to treat Hodgkin's lymphoma, is derived from the rosy periwinkle, a plant native to Madagascar."
Thanks... the Madagascar periwinkle ...it is called vincristine... and speaking of bacteria... Doxorubicin the 'red devil ... the biproduct of bacteria ... 😜
Wonderful stuff...keep looking... both are prominent in RCHOP...
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