A superbug killer being developed in WA has shown potential in helping wipe out tuberculosis and gonorrhoea.

Bentley based biotech Recce Ltd, headed by octogenarian Dr Graham Melrose, has found its breakthrough antibiotic literally explodes resistant superbugs.

Dr Graham Melrose has developed an antibiotic that could defeat superbugs and other diseases including tuberculosis and strains of VD. Credit:Nadia Budihardjo

And laboratory tests have now shown it's able to kill the pathogenic bacteria present in TB and strains of venereal disease.