Monterey, CA New Antibiotic That Fights Staph Infection, Tuberculosis And Pneumonia Found

A potent new antibiotic has been discovered and scientists are excited because it appears to be resistant to a number of bugs.  Many antibiotics that are currently on the market have been so overused that they don't work on many germs.  The new drug has only been tested on mice, so it won't be on the market for several years as it has to go through human testing and then be approved by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA).  However, the journal Nature reported that the drug called teixobactin was found after screening 10,000 bacterial strains found in soil.  It was the only one of the 10,000 to show promise so this is an extremely rare find.  It appears to be effective against bacteria that cause certain types of pneumonia, tuberculosis and the staph infection called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, which infects over one million Americans each year.