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Published online 23 May 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060522-6
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Predatory bacteria could make antibiotics
Bug-eating bugs destroy life-threatening biofilms.
Little-known predatory bacteria can suck out the innards of bugs that cause lethal lung infections, microbiologists have shown, raising the hope that they might one day provide an alternative to conventional antibiotics.
Only a handful of researchers study bugs that prey on their neighbouring bacteria in soil and water.
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