Article: Researchers at University of Technology have published new data on drug resistance.

Fresh data on drug resistance are presented in the report 'In vitro interactions of tobramycin with various nonantibiotics against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia cenocepacia.' "Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia cepacia are the major pathogens that colonize the airway surface and cause progressive respiratory failure and high mortality, especially in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Tobramycin is the treatment of choice, but persistent usage enables the infectious organisms to activate defence mechanisms, making eradication rarely successful," scientists writing in the journal FEMS Microbiology Letters report (see also Drug Resistance).

"Combinations ...

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