Three-drug combinations could help counter antibiotic resistance, biologists report

Friday, July 22, 2016 - 11:51 in Health & Medicine

Bacteria resistance to antibiotics can be offset by combining three antibiotics that interact well together, even when none of the individual three, nor pairs among them, might be very effective in fighting harmful bacteria, life scientists report. This is an important advance because approximately 700,000 people each year die from drug-resistant infections.

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