Thursday, 28 July 2016

New antibiotic found in Human nose

A new antibiotic that has quite literally,emerged from the human nose.The compound is produced by one species of nose dwelling bacterium to kill another microbe ,which kill thousands of people every year.Researchers formed a new concept of finding antibiotics,"Andrea peschel , a bacteriologist at the university of Tubingen in Germany.
Every third person carries a bacterium called staphylococcus aureus in the nose.The bacteria s.aureus is harmless,it causes severe life threatening ,disease for instance when it get into an open wound and causes sepsis.
S.aureus is a notorious hospital dweller, and in drug resistance from known as MRSA(for methicillian resistant staphylococcus aureus ) is a major public health problem ,killing more than 10,000 people a year in the United states alone.

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