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Seyed Majed Modaresi1, Melis N Anahtar2, Aarti Krishnan3

  • 1Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.

Cell host & microbe
|August 14, 2025
PubMed
概括

研究人员开发了一种新型前药,模仿宿主防御. 这种精确的抗生素疗法在酸性感染部位中激活,有效清除格拉姆阴性病原体和生物膜,而不会促进抗生素耐药性.

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