{"id":18094,"date":"2016-08-02T09:57:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T09:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/research\/human-nose-houses-a-potential-lifesaving-antibiotic\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T06:18:45","slug":"human-nose-houses-a-potential-lifesaving-antibiotic","status":"publish","type":"research","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/human-nose-houses-a-potential-lifesaving-antibiotic","title":{"rendered":"Human nose houses a potential lifesaving antibiotic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">When researchers at the University of T\u00fcbingen and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) were studying <em>Staphylococcus lugdunensis<\/em>, an antibiotic-resistant pathogen that colonizes the human nasal cavity, they discovered that this pathogen was seldom detected in the presence of <em>Staphylococcus lugdunensis<\/em>. This substance, which they named Lugdunin, is an antibiotic with the ability to fight multiresistent pathogens. An in-depth analysis of Lugdunin revealed that it has a new class of materials \u2013 a previously unknown ring structure of protein blocks. Since antibiotics are formed only by soil bacteria and fungi, the discovery of an antibiotic from human microflora has come as a surprise for researchers. Antibiotic resistance is a growing global concern. Therefore, the DZIF researchers are hopeful that this antibiotic would be effective where other antibiotics have failed to work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Read more in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/07\/160729093039.htm\">Science Daily<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_tags":[],"series":[],"subject":[5744,5742,5743],"class_list":["post-18094","research","type-research","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-and-pharmaceutics","subject-pharmacology","subject-toxicology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Human nose houses a potential lifesaving antibiotic | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/human-nose-houses-a-potential-lifesaving-antibiotic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Human nose houses a potential lifesaving antibiotic | Editage Insights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When researchers at the University of T\u00fcbingen and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) were studying Staphylococcus lugdunensis, an antibiotic-resistant pathogen that colonizes the human nasal cavity, they discovered that this pathogen was seldom detected in the presence of Staphylococcus lugdunensis. 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