A kind of drug used for treating peptic ulcer was found effective in suppressing the activity of drug-resistant superbugs in a research done by the University of Hong Kong which made the results public. The university's research team discovered that colloidal bismuth subcitrate, an antimicrobial drug against Helicobacter pylori-related ulcer, can effectively paralyze multidrug-resistant superbugs, including Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae and Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, which can cause deadly infections such as bacteremia, pneumonia, and wound infections.
An international team of researchers from the Newcastle University, Universities of Kansas and York, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has analysed the DNA from forty soil cores at eight locations and detected 131 ARGs.
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