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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“I know that MRSA has no effect on my body..”
How do you know this? Have you been deliberately infected with MRSA at some point?
And even if that’s true, which I doubt, how does that extrapolate to the entire population?
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Proof playing outside and eating mud pies is good for kids.
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Use your head!
A large portion of our population obviously has come in contact with MRSA from interaction with infected people.
How long doed it take for inphetaigo to spread in a school classroom? Bacterial infections move quickly, and mostly unseen because part of their pathway consists of immune carriers.
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Hey, we always knew that was true! ;O)
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“Use your head!”
I did. You claim some sort of immunity to MRSA. I asked for some evidence to support it. Do you have any or not?
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Will providing these drugs be dirt cheap??
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First, I gave you logical proof that you choose to ignore, and second, yes, I know for sure that two people that I employed and helped deal with their condition were clinically diagnosed.
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Is anything from the Pharma dragon “dirt cheap?”
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It does when you go offroading! lol
“First, I gave you logical proof that you choose to ignore.”
You did no such thing. Unless you’ve had MRSA deliberately injected into your body you have no idea if you were infected or not.
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Sometimes a mud poultice may be all you got out in the woods. If you can find this one in dirt, how many others could there be?
It does, except it’s a race between VW bug immune cells and Grand Prix level bacteria. Helps to have some caltrops to scatter on the bodies track...
Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Ya know, once when I was a little kid another little kid dropped a piece of candy, then picked it up and went to eatin’ it again and I said, are you really gonna eat that? and he said why not? and I said because germs, and he said maybe I’ll eat a germ that’ll make me live forever.
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You’re hopeless in your rejection of reality!
(and a waste of everyone’s time)
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I guess that’s why the Mafia used to rub garlic on their bullets, so the guys they shot wouldn’t get an infection.................
“maybe I’ll eat a germ that’ll make me live forever.”
Smart kid. Maybe he’s in R&D at big pharma now.
Yep
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Bacteria are, in general, our best friends.
We owe our lives to them; we couldn’t digest our food without them.
Whenever I see someone use a “hand sanitizer” I cringe.
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Alicin only lasts a few seconds in open air, but when absorbed by the tissues of our mouth, it is carried throughout our body.
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