US SCIENTISTS have discovered a new family of antibiotics in soil samples, according to BBC News.
The natural compounds could be used to combat hard-to-treat infections, the team at New York's Rockefeller University hopes.
The researchers used a gene sequencing technique to analyse more than 1,000 soil samples taken from across the US.
The compounds, called malacidins, annihilate several bacterial diseases that are resistant to most existing antibiotics, including the superbug MRSA.
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