The doctor has been trained in a mind - set derived from
the war against bacterial infections in which success (such as it was) was achieved by a process of diagnosing diseases by their signs and symptoms in order to identify the infecting organism so the proper antibiotic may be employed to kill it.
Now, for the first time, the compound has been successfully synthesized and used to treat a
bacterial infection in mice, marking an important milestone in the
war against antibiotic - resistant superbugs.