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jfecju t1_j8vdl1n wrote
Reply to comment by tornpentacle in A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance by geoxol
Alcohol isn't really an antibiotic medication. If a doctor tried treating a staph infection with alcohol I think the patient would die before the bacteria.
I'm actually not being cynical. New classes of antibiotics is great as a stopgap, but the problem with antibiotics resistance will not be solved before the overuse and misuse stops. It's not a scientific problem, it's a legal and societal problem. Believing that it's possible to make an antibiotic medication without the risk of resistance means you won't work strategically to prevent resistance, which will render new classes of antibiotics useless within years
jfecju t1_j8sxtuv wrote
That's a brave title for the paper. New antibiotics is great, but if course resistance will emerge once people start misusing it
jfecju t1_j8vn7pc wrote
Reply to comment by r2k-in-the-vortex in A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance by geoxol
Sure, life isn't infinitely adaptable. However, we need to keep the patient alive as well. Selectively killing off bacteria is the crux