Hmm. It is interesting to me how Mother Nature holds the secrets to taking care of us. Sometimes all of the artifical compounds in the world don’t hold a candle to something already here on this earth.
This isn’t the answer to MRSA yet – it remains to be seen – but researchers have developed a new treatment that kills MRSA made from a protien secreted from a species of American Bullfrogs. This protein called ranalexin is combined with an enzyme, lysostaphin, and have a “potent and significant” effect on MRSA.
The research team has applied for more grants so they can continue their research, so here’s hoping they have found something significant.
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Janice Storey // Feb 26, 2010 at 11:19 pm
My dad is 92 and in hospital currently being treated with Gentamicin Sulfate due to having MRSA in his heels. His heels turned black and no one ever told us it was MRSA until I put him in a nursing home who finally tested him for it. They treated it with antiobiotic in the wound treatment but not much else. But now he just got put in hospital and I am very concerned it could go septic. They are running blood work now and have informed me it has colonized in his heels. Is there anyway I could volunteer him for this Ranalexin treatment here in USA? Is there current pre-clinical trial treatments being performed here that I could volunteer him for? Please let me know or forward this to the people doing the research, please. Thank you very much in trying to help me with my father.
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