Antimicrobial metals: A recycled weapon against bacteria

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English - March 02, 2022 10:00 - 8 minutes - 5.92 MB
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Before the development of antibiotics, even a small cut could have fatal results if a bacterial infection took hold. Today, the world faces a the return of untreatable diseases due to antibiotic resistance.

Prof Raymond J. Turner at the University of Calgary is working to solve the problem of bacterial resistance to these medicines through revisiting and developing metal-containing antimicrobials.

Read the original paper here: https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics9120853