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Published online 4 April 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070402-6
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Weak drug combos find new use
Antibiotics that don't work could beat back resistant bacteria.
You would think that a combination of antibiotics that is less effective than either drug on its own would be fairly useless. But researchers now say that such ineffectual mixes could be used in the campaign against resistance to the drugs.
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