Health
Researchers looking at Alzheimer’s drug as weapon against superbugs – Brisbane Times
Researchers are hoping a drug which was earmarked as an Alzheimer’s treatment can be redeployed as a way to treat antibiotic resistant superbugs.
We were looking at the effect of zinc toxicity on bacteria, and we thought that using this drug we could transport the zinc and overload the bacteria with zinc, which puts them under stress, which in turn reverses resistance to antibiotics, he said.
We would be using the drug in a combination therapy, administering this drug along with an antibiotic the drug is resistant to.
The drug has had good success in animal models, and the researchers hope to progress to clinical trials soon.
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