Microbes that live in fishes' slimy mucus coating could lead chemists to new antibiotic drugs
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March 31, 2019
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(THE CONVERSATION) One day in the future, you may take a pill to treat an illness – and owe your recovery to the tiny microbes that flourish in the slippery layer of mucus that coats fishes.
It is critically important to find the next generation of antibiotics. The incidence of bacterial infections resistant to current antibiotics continues to climb. The World Health Organization has warned that this issue will only become more serious, and a recent study anticipates that by 2050 d...
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