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The decades-long drought in antibiotic discovery could be over after a breakthrough by US scientists.
Their novel method for growing bacteria has yielded 25 new antibiotics, with one deemed "very promising".
The last new class of antibiotics to make it to clinic was discovered nearly three decades ago.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30657486
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The researchers also believe that bacteria are unlikely to develop resistance to teixobactin.
It targets fats which are essential for building the bacterial cell wall, and the scientists argue it would be difficult to evolve resistance.
"Here is an antibiotic that essentially evolved to be free of resistance," said Prof Lewis. "We haven't seen that before.
"It has several independent different tricks that minimise resistance development."
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Drug resistance is becoming a major problem so let's hope this lives up to expectations and it can be successfully brought to market in the not too distant future.