Antibiotic Resistance Fades Away with Frog Skin
The dilemma with antibiotic resistance nearly comes to adieu with the new research on bacteria killing frog skin.
More than 6,000 genuses of frogs produced over 100 bacteria killing substances. United Arab Emirates University research team now pulls these substances making them less poisonous and appropriate for human testing.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacterium that is difficult to treat for humans. These bacteria had developed resistance to both penicillin and cephalosporin. It had caused troubles for hospital especially in areas where there are patients with open wounds.
One substance found on frog’s skin is believed to have answer with the MRSA problem. Researchers claimed that the study on frog skin is not a new one. However, their study using it with humans raise up queries on whether or not these substances are toxic to the body.
Frogs are amphibians consisting of 5,500 species. Its skin absorbs water and oxygen. Chemical toxins found in frogs include hallucinogens, convulsants, nerve poisons, and vasoconstrictors where humans can be severely affected.
Researchers after finding out substances had altered molecular formation to make them suitable for human use. They aim to make use of their work in a span of five years. Because there are instances that substances are dissolving in the bloodstream before it is utilized, researchers investigate on how to resist chemical breakdown.
Frogs have been around for 300 million years who sure knows its way around in this environment study leader Michael Conlon said. The poisons found in frogs are extraordinarily different, thereby drug manufacturers labeled them as “natural pharmacy”.
The study emphasizes on preserving frog’s species because some of their kinds are in danger due to loss of habitation, pollution and other environmental problems. Researchers presented their work at the American Chemical Society meeting.
