COVID’s rise is elevating another concern

We must keep in mind that while this pandemic caused by a respiratory virus (SARS-CoV-2) is top of mind, superbugs (multidrug resistant bacteria- MDR) still kill ~35,000 people in the US each year and 700,000 worldwide. When the role of these slower-growing bacteria are examined as partially responsible for COVID deaths, these death figures will surely increase.

However, we must also keep in mind that everyone’s ecosystem, our microbiome, always contains a mix of bacteria. In our superbug fight, we can’t jeopardize the health of these essential bacteria by the overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics that disrupt this finely tuned balance of beneficial and detrimental bacteria.  Trana stands ready to discover selective spectrum antibiotics that eliminate the destructive bacteria leaving essential bacteria undisturbed.

For more information, please read here