一种用来控制细菌的更温和的方法,或许可以解决因细菌抗药性而导致的疾病的新威胁。50多年来,抗生素一直被用作对抗从扁桃腺炎到伤寒症等一系列病患的武器。然而近年来,抗生素已逐渐丧失其药到病除的神效。如今已有如此之多的细菌种系对普通的抗生素不屑一顾,以至于美国食品药品管理局已将细菌抗药性列为对人类和动物健康越来越大的威胁。传统抗生素的问题在于其所运用的是中子弹摧毁方式:它们不加区别地杀死所有细菌。细菌学家马尔钦·菲卢托维奇说,这造成了两个问 A milder method to control bacteria may be able to solve the new threat of disease caused by bacterial resistance. For more than 50 years, antibiotics have been used as a weapon against a range of patients ranging from tonsillitis to typhoid fever. In recent years, however, antibiotics have gradually lost their magical power to the disease. There are so many bacterial strains nowadays that disregard ordinary antibiotics, so that the US Food and Drug Administration has listed bacterial resistance as an increasing threat to human and animal health. The problem with traditional antibiotics is that they use the way the neutron bombs are destroyed: they kill all bacteria indiscriminately. Bacteriologist Marcin Philiputovic said that this caused two questions