The micro organism are usually found in wastewater could transform modern medicine. These bacteria are basically similar bacteria vampires, that may be spending time by hunting the other micro organism and suck the many nutrients.
The bacteria is named Micavibrio aeruginosavorus. Scientists have known this for thirty years, but it proved very difficult to review with conventional techniques. Researchers belonging to the University of Virginia has just managed to break the genetic code and then decide how a bacteria.
Micavibrio aeruginosavorus survive by finding other bacterial strains. He then attached for the prey cell wall and began to suck nutrients victims. Many bacteria indeed survive by taking nutrients from the encompassing environment. But bacteria Micavibrio aeruginosavorus just hung his salvation you might say to uncover and destroy other bacteria.
Considered one of his favorite prey is the enemy of man, for instance Pseudomonas aeruginosavorus that causes serious lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. Although still early, the researchers said that it will be possible to utilize Micavibrio aeruginosavorus against deadly pathogens. Stay injected into areas of the body closest for the supply of infection and membiarkanya hunt down and destroy infectious bacteria.
"Experts disease may eventually be able to use these bacteria to fight fire with fire, so the bacteria will aggressively hunt and attack certain other bacteria which are dangerous to humans," said chief researcher, Martin Wu, as quoted from io9.com, Thursday (3 / 11 / 2011).
Wu also added that this will potentially reduce bacterial vampire human dependence on traditional antibiotics and help reduce the challenge of drug resistance have become facing the medical world.
Common antibiotics work by inhibiting the reproduction of bacteria or destroy cell walls. The problem is that certain strains of bacteria are proof against antibiotics and create a fresh form of so-called 'super bugs'. Micavibrio aeruginosavorus is a lovely alternative because bacteria can not build resistance to predators in the same way as in traditional antibiotics.
And since the bacteria are only hunt certain strains of bacteria, then it will not pose a threat on the beneficial bacteria that are important in the human body. Bacteria vampires can also operate in difficult environments, such as the viscous mucus layer produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosavorus, and attacking targets where traditional antibiotics are significantly less effective.
But of course, this bacterium is not yet ready to be injected into the human being body. Still required significant genetic engineering of bacteria to these vampires can hunt the desired bacterial strains and permit bacteria to another. Although dmeikian, this discovery could potentially be a major breakthrough and the fact that scientists already have the mapping of genes is a really encouraging beginning.
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