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Amino acid boosts last-resort antibiotic's effectiveness

Worldwide, antibiotic resistance is associated with millions of deaths every year, and the World Health Organization warns that the number of resistant infections is rising. Colistin is a last-resort antibiotic used when other treatments fail, but rates of colistin-resistant infections are rising as well, putting people at even greater risk and increasing the urgency for new therapeutic approaches.

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