MRSA Cure Could Lie on the Seabed
Published: May 27, 2005
BACTERIA found on the seabed off Japan could be used to fight MRSA.
British scientists have discovered an organism which produces an antibiotic capable of killing the superbug.
Called verrucosispora marisin, it is a new species of the actinomycete bacterium and turned up in sediment samples analysed by microbiologists from Newcastle and Kent universities.
MRSA is resistant to modern antibiotics and claims the lives of at least 5,000 hospital patients a year.
Professor Alan Bull, from the University of Kent, said: ‘The most exciting discovery has been a unique antibiotic, abyssomicin C. It has properties which could be used to inhibit MRSA.’
· See also: Cov kid invents MRSA miracle cream and Kenilworth scientist makes breakthrough with MRSA superbug
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