'Time-Travelling' Bugs Resist Antibiotics Of The Future

New Scientist ^ | 6-6-2008 | Ewen Callaway

[hellbender]

a company that stocks thousands of strains of frozen bacteria

All over the world, frozen time-traveling bacteria will be waking up because of Global Warming. We need trillion$ in new govt. programs to save the world. /s

[Wonder Warthog]

What is supposed to be so “earth-shaking” about this discovery??? Most antibiotics are derived from strains of bacteria in the first place, or are modified versions of molecules from same.

[seoul62]

Really? So all that hype of using anti-bacterial products is just a marketing push? When the old method: plain old soap ad water will do?/Just Asking - seoul62........

[Wonder Warthog]

"Really? So all that hype of using anti-bacterial products is just a marketing push? When the old method: plain old soap ad water will do?"

Pretty much yes. "Plain old soap and water" acts by disrupting the cell wall of the bacteria, so they die. Surfactants (i.e. soap) are a standard method for "lysing" bacteria (lysing is that disruption of the cell wall). I suspect that all the "anti-bacterial" products do is cause the evolution of resistant microbes.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Thanks KoRn.