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When the mice received a combination of antibiotic and endolysin, they were protected against disease and the antibiotic recovered its effectiveness. “It takes time for antibiotics to get past the ...

“There are two main problems in meningitis – the difficulty antibiotics have crossing the blood-brain barrier and the increase in resistant bacteria,” says principal investigator Federico Iovino, ...

"It takes time for antibiotics to get past the blood-brain barrier, upwards of several days, but endolysin can enter the brain very quickly within a few hours," says Dr Iovino.

The brain is among the most “immune-privileged” of organs primarily through the highly selective permeability of the blood-brain-barrier (BBB), its minimal lymphatic drainage, the presence of ...