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Chemist gets US patent for solution to resistance problem

publication date: Mar 12, 2014
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author/source: Department of Chemistry at University of Copenhagen

A chemist based at the University of Copenhagen has just taken out a patent for a drug that can make previously multidrug-resistant bacteria responsive to antibiotics once again.

University of Copenhagen LogoJørn Bolstad and his chemist colleagues hope that the substance will soon be able to tackle the tremendous problems associated with multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). But first, they need to find investors interested in getting the substance onto the market.

Before the development of penicillin, people dropped like flies in response to minor infections: in the lungs, in small cuts. Even pimples could grow to boils that killed. But one of the main killers prior to the discovery of antibiotics was tuberculosis.

The deadly infectious disease that typically affects the lungs has returned. It has developed a resistance to the majority of antibiotics that would otherwise kill the tuberculosis bacteria. Currently, the disease does not pose an imminent threat to Denmark or the West. However, resistant strains of the bacteria are nearing the region's borders. This is one of the reasons why doctors around the world are busy trying to solve the problem of drug resistance.


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