The search for new drugs to fight infections has led to a discovery in an unlikely place in people’s noses. What researchers found in noses is a compound called lugdunin. It fights a human bacterium responsible for the “superbug” infection known as MRSA. MRSA is short for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It is considered a “superbug” because it resists many antibiotic drugs. The result is many people die from the infection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there are 80-thousand cases every year in the United States, and 10-thousand people die from MRSA. The journal Nature Microbiology published a report about the discovery of lugdunin last month. The research team reported that the compound, produced by another bacterium, has been effective against the “superbug.”