Decades have passed and no new antibiotics have been discovered to counteract the dangerous effects of bacteria which became immune to the treatment in preventing different kinds of infectious diseases.
The threat to human health by these antibiotic resistant suprebug is real. Scientists discovered how these strains are efficient in driving off antibiotics. Better Microlide antibiotics are now being developed based on study as to how the superbugs got their immunity against antibiotics.
A bacteriophage is a virus that specifically kills bacteria. Researchers believe that these “phage” can solve the growing problem of resistant bacteria.