Microorganisms have been able to cope with each other for damn near a billion years using toxin-antitoxin systems. People are exploring these as negative select

Microorganisms have been able to cope with each other for damn near a billion years using toxin-antitoxin systems. People are exploring these as negative selection systems. Traditionally, antibiotics are used. http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/03/23/nar.gkv248.short http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/03/23/nar.g... There is probably a huge array of such things out there. They are unlikely to be as broad-spectrum as traditional antibiotics, but with research we should be able to find ones to apply to the right situations. At the same time as this crisis unfolds, our ability to know exactly what someone is infected with improves. Soon sequencing of bacterial infections will be the first step in patient triage. This will help us apply precisely the right toxin to rid the body of the problematic type(s) of bacteria.