An international research consortium from Europe and North America has discovered a new way to treat bacteria that avoids its drug-resistant mechanisms. Instead of targeting the bacteria itself, the treatment “disarms” resistant bacteria by targeting the “weapons” it uses to infect and spread, explained Christopher Jonkergouw, a Dutch Ph.D. student who led the study with professor Markus Linder at Aalto University in Finnland, in their results published in The Lancet.