Posted on 02/13/2018 7:54:03 AM PST by Gamecock
US scientists have discovered a new family of antibiotics in soil samples.
The natural compounds could be used to combat hard-to-treat infections, the team at Rockefeller University hopes.
Tests show the compounds, called malacidins, annihilate several bacterial diseases that have become resistant to most existing antibiotics, including the superbug MRSA.
Experts say the work, published in Nature Microbiology, offers fresh hope in the antibiotics arms race.
Dr Sean Brady's team at New York's Rockefeller University has been busy unearthing them.
They used a gene sequencing technique to analyse more than 1,000 soil samples taken from across the US.
When they discovered malacidins in many of the samples, they had a hunch it was an important find.
They tested the compound on rats that they had given MRSA and it eliminated the infection in skin wounds.
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God provideth in astounding and abundant ways.
As our great grandparents always said “put some dirt on it”
God made dirt, dirt don’t hurt!
Go rub some dirt in it.
Used to hear that a lot when I was a kid. Maybe there was some backwoods knowledge there.
Thanks for posting. Very interesting, and was discovered by thinking outside the box in terms of the methodology used. Seems to be very good science, and potentially a very significant finding.
The article is available as open access, here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-018-0110-1
“The last thing we need is another way to destroy our innate immune systems!”
Our immune systems work against MRSA? When did that happen?
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Inquiring minds want to know:
1. Does this mean moms can now stop yelling “Johnny, don’t put that dirt in your mouth!”
2. Will these dirt-living good bugs counteract the flesh-eating bugs in the same dirt?
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Yes, he gave us oragano oil, and alicin when we chew our fresh garlic.
Those two wipe out every bacterial disease if used correctly, and do no damage to the beneficial bacteria our lives depend on, unlike antibiotics that ultimately lead to an early death.
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Grand Parents always said ,eating dirt is good for him
There really was, often seriously infected wounds were packed with mud and bandaged to heal. Many were healed that way, according to old timers when I was a kid. I would guess the dirt is better in some areas than others for that.
Mama always said we each eat a peck of dirt in our lifetime.
(She got so tired of scrubbing potatoes.)
“Those two wipe out every bacterial disease “
Do they wipe out the good bacteria also?
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Some peoples immune systems simply do not exist, due to use of antibiotics.
I know that MRSA has no effect on my body, and that is likely so for the majority of our population. Were this not so, we would already be in an exponentially expanding epidemic of MRSA, and we are not.
Members of hospital staff typically fall on the other side of that tensor due to their propensity for the excessive use of antibiotics.
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Worked for TB. :-)
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No, they definitely do not!
They have been in our food supply for millenia, thus the more common gut bacteria are unaffected.
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TB requires extreme perseverance, as it is a tennacious spirochete, but it can be conquered by natural means as long as it has not invaded the structura negra.
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My sister, who was a delivery room nurse and breastfeeding coach her entire career, used to tell new parents that the best thing they could do to make sure they raised a healthy kid was to let them eat dirt.
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