Metallo-antibiotics: a new golden age?

Abstract

Champions of mitridatism, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are the second leading cause of death for people worldwide, complicit in the abuse of antibiotics for personal care personal care and intensive farming, and climate change. Possible solutions were
the subject of attention at the annual European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases where Dr Sara M. Soto Gonzalez from the Barcelona Institute of Global Health presented research of great interest. 19 compounds containing complexes, already used in anti-cancer treatments, revealed an extraordinary antibacterial capacity towards which antibacterial capacity towards which it would be difficult to develop resistance.