Previous research has shown that common antibiotics can affect gut bacteria, increase the chance of other infections and cause gastrointestinal, kidney, liver and other problems. said that the antibiotics we are using to fight infections have some negative effects on us. While treating the infection, they also kill our healthy bacteria.

He said scientists want to think about next-generation antibiotics that would be designed to kill only infected bacteria instead of healthy bacteria. Killed 90% of coli bacteria. When fed to mice infected with antibiotic-resistant bacterial septicemia or pneumonia, the drug protected 100 percent of mice from septicemia and 70 percent of mice from pneumonia.