MRSA - new drugs in pipeline

[Birgitta-A]

Hi All!
Now they eventually have found a type of drugs against MRSA: http://www.checkorphan.org/news/identification-of-much-needed-drug-target-against-mrsa-gram-positive-infections
Kind regards
Birgitta-A

[Marlene]

Thanks for posting this. Sound very promising.

[Neil Cuadra]

All the more surprising because it was an accidental discovery!

From the article:
The original goal of this work was to sort out the naming of different bacterial genes, but the result was identifying a completely new metabolic pathway that can be exploited to improve healthcare," says Phillips. "It's a reminder that, to paraphrase Louis Pasteur, chance favors the prepared mind.