Incurable infections win via sweat

Scientists have invented a weapon against superbugs virtually indestructible - a human sweat. In its structure it contains a substance which has a huge destructive force for microorganisms.

It's about a protein called dermitsidin, which is activated in the composition of human sweat - salty, slightly acidic substance. It safely penetrate cell membranes of harmful microbes and kill them. Scientists hope that dermitsidin can be the basis for the creation of new generation antibiotics Which will be effective in the fight against superbugs.

So called infections that spread in the hospital premises. Superbugs in the process of its evolution, faced with all the antibiotics develop resistance and become virtually invincible. These microbes caused disease that is easily treated with antibiotics before (pneumonia, sepsis, etc.) threaten the lives of patients as much as they threatened people before the invention of antibiotics. So patients have to rely on the strength of his body. But in people with weakened immune systems such supergerms almost always take away life.

"Now we know in detail how these natural antibiotics, - says Dr. Ulrich Zachariä from the University of Edinburgh. - If the skin is damaged in any way, up to mosquito bites and tiny scratches, the body releases dermitsidin that quickly finds and destroys harmful germs, trying to break through open wounds. We can use the data to create new generation antibiotics And more effective than all the existing. "(Read More)

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