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Live antibiotics use bacteria to kill bacteria

Prescribing a predator could be the answer to multidrug resistance

Bdellovibrio bacteria

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

By Elizabeth Eaton

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