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Zinc deprivation reveals vulnerability in resistant bacteria, reviving old antibiotics
Brown, Tu, and their colleagues showed that by resisting carbapenems in zinc-limited conditions, the bacteria left themselves wide open to azithromycin—one of the most commonly prescribed ...
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Zinc Identified as a Critical Vulnerability in Drug-Resistant Bacteria
And the researchers did just that. Brown, Tu, and co. showed that, by resisting carbapenems in zinc-limited conditions, the bacteria left themselves wide open to azithromycin — one of the most ...