The study builds on previous research that showed that the peptides are key to making harmful bacteria more responsive to drugs.
“We had developed information from earlier experiments that showed there was some good synergy between peptides and conventional antibiotics,” said Bob Hancock, the senior author of the paper and a professor of microbiology and immunology at UBC. “It was our idea that maybe we could breathe some life back into antibiotics by adding peptides and thus make antibiotics work in infections where they weren’t working well before.”
