{"id":37641,"date":"2023-09-25T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=37641"},"modified":"2023-09-25T12:00:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T11:00:37","slug":"new-antibiotics-to-pave-way-for-successful-bacterial-infection-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/new-antibiotics-to-pave-way-for-successful-bacterial-infection-treatment\/37641\/","title":{"rendered":"New antibiotics could pave the way for successful bacterial infection treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"
Researchers at Link\u00f6ping University, Sweden, are now developing a new class of antibiotics for bacterial infection treatment.<\/p>\n
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria threaten human lives, yet the development of new drugs to treat bacterial infections is slow.<\/p>\n
While several drugs have proven highly effective in killing bacteria or tumour cells, they also harm the patient. This means they are often used sparingly or not at all.<\/p>\n
The new antibiotics, detailed in a paper<\/a> in the Journal of Controlled Release<\/em>, aim to overcome issues with bacterial infection treatment.<\/p>\n The new process delivers strong compounds safely, opening up various opportunities for safe bacterial infection treatment.<\/p>\n Frank Hernandez, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM) at Link\u00f6ping University, explained: \u201cThere are many pharmaceutical ingredients that are highly effective but have serious side effects.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to package molecules with our method so that they are explicitly delivered to the spot in the body where the bacteria or the cancer cells are.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can lower the dose and still get a good effect exactly where it\u2019s needed.\u201d<\/p>\n A group of drugs called nucleoside analogues have been used in cancer treatments<\/a> since the 1960s. However, they have also proved effective in bacterial infection treatment.<\/p>\n Despite this, nucleoside analogues are not currently used to treat bacterial infections, likely because they are associated with severe side effects, and other antibiotics are available.<\/p>\nThe ingredients have already been successful in cancer treatments<\/h3>\n