Antibiotic resistance: ‘Snot wars’ study yields new class of drugs Prof Kim Lewis and Dr Philip Strandwitz, from the antimicrobial discovery centre at Northeastern University in the US, commented: “It may seem surprising that a member of the human microbiota – the community of bacteria that inhabits the body – produces an antibiotic. “However, the microbiota is composed of more than a thousand species, many […]