A strange method for creating antibiotics may help to tackle a dire worldwide issue: the ascent in diseases that oppose treatment with commonly used medications, and the absence of new antibiotics to swap ones that no more work.

The method, which extorts drugs from microbes that live in soil, has yielded a compelling new antibiotic, scientists reported in the Nature journal on Wednesday. The new medication, teixobactin, was tried in mice and effectively cured acute diseases, with no reactions.

Better still, the scientists said, the medication meets expectations in a manner that makes it unrealistic that bacteria will get to be impervious to it. And the method developed to create the medication can possibly open a trove of natural compounds to fight diseases and cancer — atoms that were at one time beyond researchers’ reach as the bacteria that create them couldn’t be grown in the lab.

Teixobactin has not yet been tried in humans, so its safety and viability are not known. Studies in humans won’t start for around two years, as indicated by Kim Lewis, the senior writer of the article and chief of the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University in Boston. Those studies will take a few years, so though the medication finishes all the obliged tests, it won’t be available for five or six years, he said amid a conference on Tuesday. If it is verified, he said, it will most likely infused, not taken by mouth.

Specialists not participated in the study said the procedure for isolating the medication had incredible potential. They likewise said teixobactin looked encouraging, yet showed concern as it has not yet been tried in people.

Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University, called the examination “smart” and said “We’re in the dire need of some great antibiotic news.”

With respect to teixobactin, he said: “It’s at the test-tube and the mouse level, and mice are not men or women, along these lines moving beyond is a big step, and numerous compounds have not succeeded.” He said, ” Toxicity is frequently the Achilles’ heel of medications.”

Dr. David A. Relman, a professor of medicine at Stanford, said via email, “It represents the stunning riches and diversity so far unrecognized, powerful, naturally dynamic compounds made by the microbial world — some of which may have genuine clinical worth.”

Drug-resistant microbes taint about 2 million individuals a year in the United States and kill 23,000, as per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The World Health Organization cautioned a year ago that such diseases were happening everywhere throughout the world, and that drug-resistant strains of numerous sicknesses were rising quicker than new antibiotic could be made to defeat them. Intensifying the issue is the fact that numerous drug companies back up from attempting to create new antibiotics in favor of other, more beneficial, sorts of medications.

The new research is focused around the principle that everything on earth — plants, soil, humans, creatures — is overflowing with microorganisms that fight furiously to survive. Attempting to hold each other in check, the microbes ooze organic weapons: antibiotics.

“The way microbes duplicate, if there weren’t natural methods to retrain their growth, they would have covered the planet and consumed every one of us ages back,” Dr. Schaffner said.

Researchers and drug makers have for quite a long time abused the organisms’ natural armory, regularly by mining soil specimens, and found lifesaving antibiotics like penicillin, streptomycin and tetracycline, and some influential chemotherapy drugs for cancer. However disease-causing  organisms have gotten to be impervious to numerous existing medications, and there has been a real impediment to discovering substitutions, Dr. Lewis said: About 99% of the microbial species in the earth are microbes that don’t grow under usual lab conditions.

Dr. Lewis and his associates figured out how to grow them. The methodology includes diluting a soil specimen — the one that yielded teixobactin came from “a green field in Maine” — and setting it on specific gear Then, the key to achievement is putting the supplies into a container brimming with the same soil that the same came from.

“Basically, we’re deceiving the microbes,” Dr. Lewis said. Back in their local soil, they split and develop into colonies. Once the colonies structure, Dr. Lewis said, the microbes are “tamed,” and analysts can scoop them up and begin growing them in petri dishes in the lab.

The study was paid for by the National Institutes of Health and the German government (some co-authors work at the University of Bonn). Northeastern University holds a patent on the technique for creating medications and authorized the patent to a privately owned business, Novobiotic Pharmaceuticals, in Cambridge, Mass., which claims the rights to any compounds produced. Dr. Lewis is a paid expert to the organization.

Teixobactin is the most promising contender confined from 10,000 strains of microbes that the specialists screened. In test tubes, it killed different sorts of staph and strep, and also anthrax and tuberculosis. Tried in mice, it cleared strep diseases and staph, including a strain that was drug-resistant. It works against microbes in a group known as “Gram-positive,” however not against microorganisms that are “Gram-negative,” which incorporate some that are significant reasons for drug-resistant pneumonia, gonorrhea and diseases of the bladder and circulatory system. Dr. Lewis said scientists were attempting to adjust the medication to make it work against Gram-negative diseases.

25 other drug candidates were also identified by the researchers, but most had shortcomings such as toxicity or insolubility, Dr. Lewis said, adding that one, though toxic, may work against cancer and will be tested further.

Teixobactin attacks bacteria by blocking fatty molecules needed to build cell walls, which is different from the way most antibiotics work. Those molecules are unlikely to change and make the microbes resistant, the researchers said. But if resistance does occur, Dr. Lewis predicted, it will take a long time to develop.

Dr. Relman said the argument against resistance was reasonable. But he cautioned that “unsuspected mechanisms of resistance” sometimes develop, and that the only way to tell would be to monitor carefully what happens as the drug is used more and more.

Dr. Lewis said he hoped the research would point the way to a new approach to searching for novel antibiotics. Until now, he said, scientists have assumed that resistance would inevitably develop, and that the only solution would require scrambling to develop new antibiotics in hopes of keeping up.

“This gives us an alternative strategy,” he said. “Develop compounds to which resistance will not develop.”