Teixobactin

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The development of new antibiotics has been a difficult task due to the rapid evolution of resistant bacteria. Teixobactin is a newly discovered antibiotic that is effective against gram positive bacteria including antibiotic-resistant strains, such as methicilin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), without evidence of resistance development.1 The antibiotic, isolated from the soil using a device called the iChip, works by inhibiting cell wall synthesis.1

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Electron micrograph of the Ebola Zaire virus. This was the first photo ever taken of the virus, on 10/13/1976. By Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, then at the CDC.

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Further Reading

[Sample link] Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever—Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Special Pathogens Branch

References

1. Ling, L., Schneider, T., Peoples, A., Spoering, A., Engels, I., & Conlon, B. et al. (2015). A new antibiotic kills pathogens without detectable resistance. Nature, 517(7535), 455-459. doi:10.1038/nature14098

2. Nichols, D., Cahoon, N., Trakhtenberg, E., Pham, L., Mehta, A., & Belanger, A. et al. (2010). Use of Ichip for High-Throughput In Situ Cultivation of "Uncultivable" Microbial Species. Applied And Environmental Microbiology, 76(8), 2445-2450. doi:10.1128/aem.01754-09

3. Wright, G. (2015). Antibiotics: An irresistible newcomer. Nature, 517(7535), 442-444. doi:10.1038/nature14193

Edited by (your name here), a student of Nora Sullivan in BIOL168L (Microbiology) in The Keck Science Department of the Claremont Colleges Spring 2014.