Strep Bacteria Resistant to New Antibiotic

Aaron Rowe writes "MSNBC and The Lancet medical journal have reported that the new oxazolidinone antibiotic Zyvox is ineffective against some forms of Staphylococcus aureus."

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Re:Nanotech Bacteria Killer

[Dr.Dubious DDQ]

Now nanotech would be something. We could make some nano-probes which would identify bacterias (in some biochemical way, membrane receptors, for example) and destroy them somehow

I'm way ahead of you. I have, in my possession, a two part nanotechnological design for exactly this. The first nanite is relatively simple, it's a "Y"-shaped machine with "grabbers" tuned to match parts of bacteria and viruses, and one end that's recognized by a larger, more complex nanite that spots the first nanite, and is triggered to destroy the invader by surrounding it and attacking it with a burst of oxidizing chemicals.

I'm not kidding - I've been testing this system for years, and I can report that it works very well...

(see any "Immunology" textbook for further details)...