Technique Could Help To Identify Novel Antibacterial Targets

Abstract

A new “predator-prey” system can help in identifying infection-critical genes of bacterial pathogens such as Klebsiella pneumoniae and also which mutants are less capable of producing pneumonia in mice, according to Mohammed Benghezal and his colleagues from the company Athelas and the University of Geneva, both in Geneva, Switzerland. They presented their findings during the poster session “Pathogenesis I” at the 45th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) last December in Washington, D.C. Their poster, “New Targets for Antibacterial Drugs,” received the ICAAC Program Committee Award for research excellence.