Targeting iron uptake to create a new class of antibiotics against UTIs

At least half of all women will have a urinary tract infection during their lifetimes, and many of the infections — which have increasingly become resistant to a wide array of antibiotics — recur. Now, researchers report early progress toward developing a new class of antibiotics that would fight these infections by starving the causative bacteria of iron.

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