S17-474 Synthesis and Characterization of a New Antibiotic Researchers at Stanford and their colleagues have developed new antibiotic compounds that could be used to treat staph infection (caused by Staphylococcus aureus) and TB infection (caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis). Jos Bucheli Edson Noriega Gnanamani Elumalai Shyam Sathyamoorthi Lourival Possani Postay Shibdas Banerjee Richard Zare Rogelio Pando