Hard to find that one, but the bacteria that produce most of the known antibiotics, the actinomycetes (of which this bacterium is a member) are amazingly abundant in soil. You know the smell of wet soil? That's actinomycetes you're smelling.
For more info on the new antibiotic (which, to the best of my knowledge is years away from application, if it makes it that far), a good place to start is here:
https://www.uni-tuebingen.de/suessmuth/research3.html
Northern_Lad
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Posted: Wed May 25, 05 1:45 pm Post subject:
cab wrote:
Hard to find that one, but the bacteria that produce most of the known antibiotics, the actinomycetes (of which this bacterium is a member) are amazingly abundant in soil. ...
So what you're saying, basically, is - eat dirt, it's good for you.
I just like the way nature balences itself out; now, if only there was an anti-human to balance us out...
That's one way of looking at it, on the other hand there are literally THOUSANDS of antimicrobial compounds out ther, if not MILLIONS, and most of them are, from our point of view, entirely useless. It's an odd kind of balance, if indeed it is balanced at all.
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