Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which are highly likely to infect people, especially in the hospital environment, can cause serious problems in people with low immunity. One of these bacteria, “staphylococcus aureus”, can cause vital diseases such as pneumonia and sepsis in human skin.
Fighting these bacteria with antibiotics is another threat to the future, as the bacteria’s resistance continues to increase. But the scientific world may have succeeded in developing a solution to this problem.
Some bacteria can be fought without the need for antibiotics:
- Skin infection caused by Staphylococcus aureus.
Scientists from the University of Copenhagen have artificially infected bacteria in a laboratory environment and produced enzymes that fight them. The artificial version of the endolysin enzyme, normally produced by the bacteriophage in our body, has been used successfully against staphylococcus aureus.
The artificial enzyme, called XZ.700, was able to block the bacterium’s tumor-promoting effects. In this way, the bacteria was destroyed in the skin samples in the laboratory environment and the effect of the bacteria that could cause cancer was also eliminated.
The bacteria destroyed by the enzyme were not actually antibiotic-resistant bacteria. But the success achieved in this bacterium instilled great hope. In the next step, scientists aim to destroy the antibiotic-resistant methicillin-resistant staphylococcus (MRSA) aureus strain with the enzyme.
On the other hand, there are some missing points in success. Experiments and established conditions in the laboratory environment may not be sufficient to produce the same effect against infections and cancer in the real world environment. Therefore, more research will be needed to see the effect of the artificial endolysin enzyme.
The scientists shared their research results in the Journol of Investigative Dermatology.
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