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The golden age of antibiotics is on its way after several gold-based compounds were found to have the potential<\/a> to treat multidrug-resistant \u201csuperbugs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With 19 of the compounds testing effective against at least one hard-to-treat bacterium and some effective against multiple, the future is looking golden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drug-resistant infections kill an estimated 700,000 people a year globally and this figure is projected to rise to 10 million by 2050 if no action is taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The World Health Organization classes antibiotic resistance as one of the greatest public health threats facing humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the development of new antibiotics has stalled and the few new antibiotics being developed are mainly offshoots of existing treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gold is known to have antibacterial properties, making it an exciting new potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gold metalloantibiotics are compounds with a gold ion at their core and, according to researchers are inexpensive and straightforward to make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study investigated 19 gold complexes against a range of multidrug-resistant bacteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The complexes all belong to the same family but have slightly different structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team studied six bacteria includin Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which causes MRSA, Staphylococcus epidermidis, which causes catheter-associated infections, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which leads to infections such as pneumonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other three were Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, which can also cause pneumonia and Acinetobacter baumannii and Escherichia coli that leads to blood and urinary tract infections as well as pneumonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All the strains studied were multi-drug resistant.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

S. aureus, P. aeruginosa, A. baumannii and E. coli are among the bacteria judged to pose the greatest risk to human health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multidrug-resistant S. maltophilia is increasingly being found in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the tests, 84 percent of the gold complexes were highly effective against MRSA and S. epidermis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of the 19 complexes 16 were effective against the other bacteria, all of which have greater inbuilt resistance to antibiotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gold complexes use a variety of techniques to kill bacteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They stop enzymes from working, disrupt the function of the bacterial membrane and damage DNA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crucially, these new antibiotics should prevent antimicrobial resistance from developing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Study author Dr. Sara Soto Gonz\u00e1lez, from Barcelona Institute for Global Health in Spain, said: \u201cAll of the gold compounds were effective against at least one of the bacterial species studied and some displayed potent activity against several multidrug-resistant bacteria.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is particularly exciting to see that some of the gold complexes were effective against MRSA and multidrug-resistant A. baumannii, as there are two biggest causes of hospital-acquired infections.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe type of gold complexes we studied, known as gold (III) complexes, are relatively straightforward and inexpensive to make. They can also be easily modified and so provide a vast amount of scope for drug development.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith research on other types of gold metalloantibiotics also providing promising results, the future is bright for gold-based antibiotics.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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