Re:A Novel Way to Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria
by tchaffee on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:46PM
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This approach is encouraging. I would also like to see more research with the opposite of antibiotics: probiotics. Which doesn't need to mean yogurt. I'm talking about something similar to the approach recently used with mosquitoes where infertile males were bred and released, hugely reducing the population. That type of thinking.
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Re:A Novel Way to Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria
by blacksmith_tb on Friday January 04, 2019 @03:01PM
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Tricky though, given that bacteria reproduce asexually[1]. However it might be possible to use horizontal gene transfer to do something similar.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria#Growth_and_reproducti...
Re:A Novel Way to Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria
by jlavine on Saturday January 05, 2019 @09:18AM
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There's at least a couple of studies [1][2] showing benefits of using a probiotic cleaner containing B. subtilis, B. pumilus and B. megaterium
made by Belgian company Chrisal [3] over just using bleach for surfaces in a hospital setting. I first read about this in the book "I Contain Multitudes" which is about the microbiome.
From [1]: "This concept has been designated as biocontrol when the application is antagonistic towards a certain pathogen [26], and has already successfully been applied to the abatement of Legionella in water systems [27]."
[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... [2] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... [3] https://www.chrisal.com/about.php