This fruit treats stafilokk better antibiotics!

Chilean avocado may contain ingredients that are sufficient to fight the hospital infections are not treatable with antibiotics. This conclusion was Danish researchers from the University of Copenhagen.

In this exotic fruit for the Russians, who are growing in the Chilean rainforest, there is a natural substance that blocks the ability of bacteria Staphylococcus aureus   to resist the effects of antibiotics. These bacteria are the most common cause of infection, affecting the operating wound.

Bacteria Staphylococcus aureus   especially quickly develops a resistance to the antibiotic and not respond to any treatment. Cases of infection by bacteria are recorded in the United States and Greece. Post-graduate student of the University of Copenhagen Jess Gitts Holler worked together with representatives of ethnic Indians Araucanians living in Chile.

"I discovered that a natural substance in the Chilean Avocado is active in combination with traditional antibiotics, - said Holler. - Resistant bacteria have specific cellular channel through which ejected antibiotics, got access there. A substance avocado inhibits the work of these channels so that defense mechanism of bacteria is destroyed. This makes effective medicines. "

Postgraduate gathered the fruit plantations in Chile, where the Indians have traditionally grown avocados to use them to treat wounds. The findings of the young Danish scientist published in the journal Journal of Microbial Chemotherapy.

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