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News‘Living medicine’ tackles drug-resistant biofilms growing on ventilation tubes
A ‘living medicine’ has thinned biofilms of antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the lungs of pigs, a new study reveals. The experimental treatment involves inhaling a genetically modified bacterium designed to target layers of drug-resistant P. aeruginosa that grow on the surfaces of endotracheal tubes used in hospitals.