A new antibiotic made by lab-grown bacteria can kill "superbugs" without driving the germs to become more resistant to treatment, an early study suggests.
Scientists isolated the antibiotic, called clovibactin, from a bacterium called Eleftheria terrae subspecies carolina that they collected in soil samples from North Carolina. Their research, published Aug. 22 in the journal Cell, addresses the urgent need for new antibiotics that kill bacteria in new ways.
