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Drugs that aren’t antibiotics can also kill bacteria − new method pinpoints how

  • Written by Mariana Noto Guillen, Ph.D. Candidate in Systems Biology, UMass Chan Medical School
Drugs that aren’t antibiotics can also kill bacteria − new method pinpoints howMany nonantibiotic drugs such as certain antidepressants and antiparasitics have antibacterial effects.Tanja Ivanova/Moment via Getty Images

Human history was forever changed with the discovery of antibiotics in 1928. Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and sepsis were widespread and lethal until penicillin made them treatable....

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