Dr. Barry Dworkin

WHO issues warning about growing antibiotic resistance. Komodo Dragons to the rescue?

Health Headlines Commentary for March 1, 2017

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Source:

We may soon have ‘no useful antibiotics left’: expert

The Blood of Komodo Dragons Could Help Us to Slay Antibiotic Resistance

Reference:

WHO publishes list of bacteria for which new antibiotics are urgently needed

Discovery of Novel Antimicrobial Peptides from Varanus komodoensis (Komodo Dragon) by Large-Scale Analyses and De-Novo-Assisted Sequencing Using Electron-Transfer Dissociation Mass Spectrometry

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