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I read fairly recently about a study of the effect of combining typical antibiotics with another drug. When applied to resistant bacteria in a pitri dish, the combination was markedly more effective against the resistant bactera. I do not recall the name of the drug but it was nothing exotic. The finding seemed to be a bit of serendipitiy . Know anything about this? Is sounded quite promising and exciting.
#1 Posted by Roberto Paul, CJR on Mon 15 Jul 2013 at 04:31 PM