Mining the microbiome: Discovering new antibiotics in the human gut
Prevotellin-2, an antibiotic found in the human intestine, has shown anti-infective efficacy compared to polymyxin B, an FDA-approved antibiotic used today to treat infections drug resistance, suggesting that the human microbiome may one day contain antibiotics. get a clinical application. Credit: Cesar de la Fuente, Ami S. Bhatt The average human gut contains about 100 … Read more