{"id":2100,"date":"2011-03-31T13:27:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T06:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nano2.toolsmkt.com\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2011-03-31T13:27:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T06:27:30","slug":"antibiotics-wrapped-in-nanofibers-turn-resistant-disease-producing-bacteria-into-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nanotec.or.th\/en\/antibiotics-wrapped-in-nanofibers-turn-resistant-disease-producing-bacteria-into-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Antibiotics Wrapped in Nanofibers Turn Resistant Disease-producing Bacteria into Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new technology that encapsulates antibiotics inside nanofibers has the ability to destroy drug-resistant bacteria so completely that scientists describe the remains as mere &#8220;ghosts.&#8221; <!--more-->More than 100,000 people in the United States develop antibiotic-resistant infections each year, with nearly 20,000 deaths resulting. Mohamed H. El-Newehy, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Chemistry at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and leader of the nanofibers research team, said, &#8220;The rapid emergence of bacteria resistant to commonly used antibiotics has become a serious public health problem. There is an urgent need to identify new antibiotics that work in different ways that can overcome resistance. Our approach is not a new antibiotic, but a new way of delivering existing antibiotics.&#8221; El-Newehy was speaking at the 241st National Meeting &amp; Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The approach, which involves putting common antibiotics inside nanofibers made of polyvinyl alcohol and polyethylene oxide, could be used against a broad range of bacteria to fight disease, prevent bacterial and fungal contamination in the food industry, inhibit the growth of microorganisms in drinking water, and enhance the effects of chemotherapy. &#8220;When treated with antibiotics wrapped in nanofibers, the microbes were severely damaged and many cells were enlarged, elongated, fragmented, or left as just empty ghosts,&#8221; El-Newehy said. &#8220;The fibers by themselves, without antibiotic did not affect the bacteria. They seem to work by boosting the power of the antibiotics. By wrapping the anti-microbial agents in the fibers, it makes the drug action more focused and the agents are effective for longer period of time than with conventional delivery techniques.&#8221; New treatments would also be available to patients much faster than trying to discover and develop brand-new medicines \u2013 a process that is lengthy and costly. 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