Detecting viruses that can kill bacteria in dishwashing rags

New research on viruses in dishwashers that can eat bacteria can be helpful in fighting bacteria, which cannot be killed with antibiotics alone.

US researchers have found that viruses in dishwashers can eat bacteria.

This finding may be useful in fighting bacteria, which cannot be killed with antibiotics alone.

The study was presented at an annual meeting of the American Society of Microbiology on June 23.

A dishwasher contains all kinds of germs, many of which are bacteria.

In the study, the two scientists used bacteria as bait and identified two entities that eat bacteria that can swallow bacteria in dishwashing rags. Typically, a dishwasher contains all kinds of germs, many of which are bacteria, thus providing a plentiful source of food for bacteria-eating entities.

Brianna Weiss, a science graduate student at the New York Institute of Technology, said: "Our research demonstrates the value of finding bacterial environments that can hide and bacteria-eating entities. useful (for humans) ".

The researchers exchanged two bacteria-eating entities to see if they could eat the bacteria that were separated from the other individual, and found that these entities still killed the bacteria from the fish. Other.

They compared the DNA of these two independent strains and found that they belonged to a group of flagellates commonly found in human and animal waste. Some of these bacteria can cause infections in hospitals.

Although these two strains of bacteria are quite similar, the researchers discovered many of their chemical variations when conducting biochemical tests, demonstrating that the bacteria-eating entities are "voracious" people.

This difference plays an important role, helping to understand the types of bacteria that an entity eating bacteria can destroy, is also the "key" to determine the ability to treat infectious diseases especially resistant. antibiotics