Ars Technica: Researchers accidentally create strain-specific antibiotic.
“Pseudomonas is mostly a problem in cystic fibrosis patients, so the new antibiotic isn’t likely to be generally useful. But its specificity is very appealing.”
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Didn’t know that! We used to carry little squeeze bottles with alcohol to put in our ears after swimming.
Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 02/20/10 at 06:13 PM
Pseudomonas is a very important pathogenic bacteria, actually. It is the most-frequent cause of ‘Swimmer’s Ear,’ that agonizingly-painful ear-canal infection. So this is NOT an unimportant achievement! HOORAY!