Periodontitis: Researchers search for a new active substance

Press release of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg /

Targeted, efficient and with few side effects: A new method for combating periodontitis could render the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics superfluous. It was developed and tested for the first time by a team from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI and Periotrap Pharmaceuticals GmbH, a Fraunhofer IZI spin-off. The aim is to neutralise only bacteria that cause periodontitis while sparing harmless bacteria. The study appeared in the "Journal of Biological Chemistry".