Fighting Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotics have become an important tool in the arsenal of any health care practitioner. However the frequent use of a particular antibiotic also ends up reducing it’s effectiveness for a patient if the patient develops antibiotic resistance. Bacterial infections that are drug resistant have caused thousands of deaths each year.

At the University of California, Los Angeles, researchers are working on a new method of drug administration which is likely to overcome the problem generated by antibiotic resistance. A research team has been experimenting on fighting bacterial infections with a combination of three different antibiotics.

The scientific study which is a combination of biology and mathematics which helps determine what would be the best combination of antibiotics to heal the patient. Three drug combinations can be really beneficial as the researchers conducting the study are beginning to find out.

So far 364 three drug combinations have been tested and in 94 cases the bacteria has been eliminated 100%. Needless to say a whole lot more study needs to be done for the information to be passed into regular practice, but yes there is now hope for healing the patients suffering from drug resistant bacterial infections.