Showing posts with label resistance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resistance. Show all posts

Friday, February 24, 2012

Chilean avocado Fight Antibiotic Resistance


Antibiotic resistance or drug-resistant bacteria is a health problem now faced by the medical world. Hope of solving this problem falls to the avocado fruit from Chile.

In a study published in the Journal of Microbial Chemotherapy is shown that the content in Chilean avocado able to resist the mechanisms of resistance of Staphylococcus aureus (also called staph infeksek).

Staph infection that is known as a type of bacterial infection that most often experienced by people after surgery. The impact of serious bacterial infections, ranging from sepsis to food poisoning.