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This approach is encouraging. I would also like to see more research with the opposite of antibiotics: probiotics. Which doesn't need to mean yogurt. I'm talkin

This approach is encouraging. I would also like to see more research with the opposite of antibiotics: probiotics. Which doesn't need to mean yogurt. I'm talking about something similar to the approach recently used with mosquitoes where infertile males were bred and released, hugely reducing the population. That type of thinking.

blacksmith_tb 8y ago
Tricky though, given that bacteria reproduce asexually[1]. However it might be possible to use horizontal gene transfer to do something similar. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria#Growth_and_reproduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria#Growth_and_reproducti...
jlavine 8y ago
There's at least a couple of studies [1][2] showing benefits of using a probiotic cleaner containing B. subtilis, B. pumilus and B. megaterium made by Belgian company Chrisal [3] over just using bleach for surfaces in a hospital setting. I first read about this in the book "I Contain Multitudes" which is about the microbiome. From [1]: "This concept has been designated as biocontrol when the application is antagonistic towards a certain pathogen [26], and has already successfully been applied to the abatement of Legionella in water systems [27]." [1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0108598 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... [2] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0148857 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... [3] https://www.chrisal.com/about.php https://www.chrisal.com/about.php