A blood pressure drug has the potential to combat one of the most common, difficult-to-treat bacterial infections, according to a new study. A team of researchers, led by scientists at the Houston Methodist Research Institute in Texas, has shown that the drug Candesartan cilexetil could help stop a kind of antibiotic-resistant bacteria called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus , or MRSA. In lab and animal studies, the medicine disrupted the bacteria's cell membrane, interfering with

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