Yogurt, a probiotic with gut-healthy bacteria is an excellent source of protein and calcium. Rachelle Allen-McFarlane isolated and studied Lactobacillus bacteria protein found out this is capable of inhibiting the drug-resistant gut bacteria. He isolated 68 lactic acid bacteria from yogurt and added them to Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli, and Staphylococcus aureus to prove the antibacterial activity of the lactic acid bacteria. Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli, and Staphylococcus aureus are bacteria which diseases in humans. Most of the probiotic bacteria were capable of inhibiting these three deadly bacteria. Lactobacillus parafarraginis was chosen for further study and was found to inhibit 14 multi-drug-resistant bacteria including E. coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pseudomonas coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus mirabilis, Enterobacter aerogenes, etc. Many pathogenic bacteria have now developed resistance to many of the antibiotics usually used to treat the diseases caused by them. Analysis of the bacterial components showed that the substance which inhibits the drug-resistant bacteria is a bacteriocin, which are proteins produced and released by bacteria that shows antimicrobial activity. Thus the antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains, which posed a threat to the global healthcare and bacterial disease control, could be controlled.
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