Antibiotic resistance has been called one of the biggest public health threats of our time. There is a pressing need for new and novel antibiotics to combat the rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria worldwide. Researchers from Florida International University's Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine are part of an international team that has discovered a new broad-spectrum antibiotic that contains arsenic.
The study, published in Nature's Communication Biology, is a collaboration between the Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, and Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO in Japan. " The antibiotic, arsinothricin or AST, is a natural product made by soil bacteria and is effective against many types of bacteria, which is what broad-spectrum means," said the co-senior author of the study published in the Nature journal, Communications Biology. "Arsinothricin is the…
