Mixing your drugs kills superbugs!

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

We hear a lot in the news about multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria but not very much about the efforts made to tackle these so-called ‘superbugs’.

At the recent ‘Antibiotics 2011’ meeting hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry, I heard some interesting talks from senior scientists working for the pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline and Bayer.