Cockroaches and grasshoppers can kill resistant bacteria

In the fight against bacteria resistant to many antibiotics, humans can have two allies, cockroaches and grasshoppers.

Cockroaches are considered dangerous to humans because they carry more than 20 different pathogens and grasshoppers are the culprits that destroy crops.

However, research by scientists from the British National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found that in the brain and nerve tissue of these two insects, at least nine types of molecules can kill many types of bacteria. including E. coli bacteria and meticillin-resistant MRSA staph .

These two types of bacteria cause serious illness in humans and have developed mechanisms for resistance to many current antibiotics.

Simon Lee, a researcher at the University of Nottingham, UK, said that studying the compound in the brain and nerve tissue of cockroaches and grasshoppers could open new directions in the fight against the antibiotic resistance of antibiotics. bacteria.

Tests have confirmed that the bactericidal molecules in the brain and nerve tissue of these two insects do not harm human cells.

Therefore, they can be used to develop new antibiotics that do not cause harmful side effects when people use them to kill many types of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Insects often live in unsanitary conditions so they are capable of producing highly antiseptic compounds.