Find out how to identify resistant bacteria in minutes

US researchers have recently discovered a new technique that will probably help our species in the fight against disease from the 'bacteria'. Bacteria are actually strains of bacteria that cause disease to humans and are resistant to common antibiotics. The technique was presented on May 1 in a specialized journal.

This study was born at the right time when people were faced with mutations from resistant bacteria. In the United States, the virus is thought to cause more deaths than AIDS. An example illustrates the fact that every year more than 19,000 people die from MRSA bacteria. The development of this new method will help detect early cases as well as promote pharmaceuticals to speed up development of new antibiotics.

Dr. Vitaly Vodyanoy (Auburn University) - one of the leaders of the team said they created antibacterial viruses used to identify antibiotic-resistant viruses. Since then will find a way to better disinfect the hospital as well as treat patients promptly.

Vodyanoy has focused on testing staphylococcus (Staphylococcus also known as 'staph'). This is an agent that causes many serious diseases and has very high antibiotic resistance. Some staph infections can be treated with normal antibiotics, but on the other hand there are many cases of drug resistance that infect the internal organs. The consequences of this are often death and other serious sequelae.

Dr. Vodyanoy's research is collaborated with the US Air Force, and his colleagues have demonstrated that antibacterial viruses can be combined with some other antibodies to help determine antibiotic resistance in samples. Staph bacteria. These bacteria will change color when given resistance samples in a short time. According to Dr. Vodyanoy's statement, their method can determine antibiotic-resistant bacteria in about 10-12 minutes and the process is much simpler than traditional methods.

The virus is used to identify completely harmless resistant samples to humans. In addition, they are expected to be glass coating in hospitals to resist harmful bacteria. In the future this study is expected to be completed and put into practice soon.