Live antibiotics use bacteria to kill bacteria
Prescribing a predator could be the answer to multidrug resistance
BACTERIAL COMBATANTS Bdellovibrio bacteria (yellow) attack larger bacteria (blue), using the prey’s remains to replicate. Bdellovibrio microbes are a kind of living antibiotic.
STEPHAN CHRISTOPH SCHUSTER
The woman in her 70s was in trouble. What started as a broken leg led to an infection in her hip that hung on for two years and several hospital stays.