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New antibiotic family discovered in dirt
BBC ^ | 2/13/2018

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: antibiotics; mrsa
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To: neverevergiveup

Not really any outside the box thinking on this. The scientists used tried and true soil sampling + contemporary microbiological research lab technique + logistics management + project management + several wheel barrows of funding. Statistical analysis would pop out significant items for the first level screen for useful activities.


41 posted on 02/13/2018 9:01:14 AM PST by Hootowl99
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To: ichabod1

Ya shoulda been a scientist! You were way ahead of your time.

Did Mom give you a swat for sass?


42 posted on 02/13/2018 9:02:22 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Lurker; editor-surveyor

Most people are carriers and have no idea. It sits there growing in your nose until one day, bam you get an open wound and somehow it gets in there, then it actually causes the infection (or not because it doesn’t).

It’s a crapshoot really.


43 posted on 02/13/2018 9:02:30 AM PST by jurroppi1 (The Left doesnÂ’t have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: Gamecock

Eat dirt!


44 posted on 02/13/2018 9:03:11 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Gamecock

Not the first antibiotic isolated from soil. The antibiotic lincomycin was so named because it was found in soil near Lincoln, Illinois.


45 posted on 02/13/2018 9:05:45 AM PST by Artem55
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To: jurroppi1; Lurker

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>> “Most people are carriers and have no idea.” <<

Absolutely!

Especially in a warm damp city environment.

We carry everything we’ve contacted unless the environment is extremely dry.
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46 posted on 02/13/2018 9:11:04 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Gamecock
US scientists have discovered a new family of antibiotics in soil samples.

New to them. It's probably existed for more than a few millennia.

47 posted on 02/13/2018 9:22:25 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Gamecock

So, they are gonna recreate dirt so they can charge us a bunch a money because they got a patent on dirt?


48 posted on 02/13/2018 9:25:16 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Gamecock

During sandlot games; if you got scratched or scraped, you were told to rub dirt in it and get back to playing. Of course you’d catch flak from Mom when you got home too. Now we can all go collectively stick our tongues out at our mothers and show them this article. Bring some dirt to rub into the wounds for after you do this though.


49 posted on 02/13/2018 9:44:14 AM PST by Lazarus Starr
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To: Gamecock

Hence the quip, “put some dirt on it - it’ll be OK”...


50 posted on 02/13/2018 9:44:31 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...;-})
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Well, I was smart enough to realize that it was bullshite, but for some reason the episode stayed with me my whole life.


51 posted on 02/13/2018 9:44:39 AM PST by ichabod1 (People don't want to believe it be what it is but it do.)
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To: Gamecock

The North Koreans and Venezuelans must be the healthiest people on Earth.


52 posted on 02/13/2018 9:47:17 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Lurker

A huge percentage of the population are carriers of Staph. Many have resistance to antibiotics. A short read,
https://www.cdc.gov/mrsa/pdf/SHEA-mrsa_largertext.pdf


53 posted on 02/13/2018 10:06:39 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Hootowl99
The outside the box was using non-culture based analysis.
54 posted on 02/13/2018 10:48:44 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Gamecock

Many antibiotics have been found in soil. The question is does this novel antibiotic come a fungus or bacteria?


55 posted on 02/13/2018 11:17:24 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: TexasGator

I hope you don’t take this guy seriously.


56 posted on 02/13/2018 11:21:15 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: editor-surveyor; mewzilla

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.””

Are you for real Mr. Editor? You need to put a SARC after your comments here. You’re a piece of work.


57 posted on 02/13/2018 11:24:14 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: Red Badger

LOL. Good one Red, you old badger.


58 posted on 02/13/2018 11:27:28 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: editor-surveyor

LOL.Bacteria are, in general, our best friends.””

Yeah, that’s why infectious agents have wiped out 100s of millions of people since the beginning. There are beneficial, harmless, and pathogenic bacteria and viruses, and fungi. You are out of your league with jibberish.


59 posted on 02/13/2018 11:30:50 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Gamecock.

60 posted on 02/13/2018 11:42:33 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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