MRSA Studies identify potential treatment from Bacteria found in the Human Nose

Until now, conventional antibiotic discovery has focused on looking for compounds from bacteria living in dirt. But identifying novel compound structures from soil microbes has been getting harder. The new research, from Andreas Peschel and colleagues at the University of Tübingen, suggests that the immense variety of microorganisms living in the human body, particularly in the nose, may be a potential source of new antibiotics.

Clumps of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria or MRSA. (Janice Carr/Jeff Hageman in the Washington Post)

“These organisms, or the antibiotics they produce, might serve as drug-discovery leads,” Kim Lewis of Northeastern University in Boston wrote in an accompanying commentary. Lewis, who was not involved in the study, directs Northeastern’s Antimicrobial Discovery Center and was part of the team that last year identified teixobactin, a new class of antibiotic in dirt that fights bacteria in a way that prevents bacteria from becoming resistant to it.
–To Your Health Article by Lena H. Sun for the Washington Post

Read more about this here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/07/27/scientists-find-new-antibiotic-in-the-human-nose/?postshare=6941469925205096&tid=ss_in