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Scientists find potential new antibiotic, right under their noses

Reuters: Science - Posted: July 27th, 2016, 1:08pm UTC

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists in Germany have discovered a bacteria hiding out in peoples' noses that produces an antibiotic compound that can kill several dangerous pathogens, including the superbug MRSA.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=wTjiI7qrCzM:f1-daBYGspo:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=wTjiI7qrCzM:f1-daBYGspo:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=wTjiI7qrCzM:f1-daBYGspo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=wTjiI7qrCzM:f1-daBYGspo:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=wTjiI7qrCzM:f1-daBYGspo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/wTjiI7qrCzM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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