IISc produces a salt to combat bacterial infections


Using crystal engineering, a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore has successfully produced a highly efficacious binary salt of two commonly used drugs — norfloxacin (antibacterial) and sulfathiazole (antimicrobial).

The salt is more effective than a physical mixture of the two drugs. The results were published in the journal Molecular Pharmaceutics.

The two drugs were ground for nearly 30 minutes and made into a solution from which the salt was produced. It has enhanced pharmaceutical effects compared to the physical mixture of the two drugs.............Read more

 

Source: The Hindu


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