Infectious disease researchers have warned that people are dying from "superbugs" because our antibiotic storage has run dry, leaving the world without adequate weapons to fight the ever-changing bacteria.
Superbugs can evade antibiotics by producing an enzyme that destroys the drug or creating a barrier to the drug, the doctors say. Or superbugs can pump out any antibiotic that reaches the bacterial cell or change the target of the antibiotic so the drug cannot attach to it.
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Added by Dawn Ranieri on June 21, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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