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Trumping bacterial resistance

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Philip Ball reports on how antibiotic designers are foiling drug-resistant bacteria by letting them bite off more than they can chew.

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  1. Sucheck,S. J. et al. Design of bifunctional antibiotics that target bacterial rRNA and inhibit resistance-causing enzymes. Journal of the American Chemical Society 122, 5230 - 5231 2000.

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