A step toward a UTI treatment that could thwart bacterial drug resistance

(American Chemical Society) This spring, a Pennsylvania woman who developed a urinary tract infection (UTI) became the first patient in the US reported to have a bacterial infection resistant to colistin, an antibiotic of last resort. The case set off alarm bells in the medical field. Now scientists report in ACS' Journal of Medicinal Chemistry a new class of small molecules for fighting the common infection. The way the molecules work could potentially prevent bacteria from developing resistanc...