The crocodile immune system is much more powerful than human beings, the prevention of life after infection Savage territorial fights which often leave the animals with wounds and missing limbs omissions.
Early studies on the crocodile immune system in 1998 found that several proteins (antibodies) in the blood of reptiles killed bacteria that are resistant to penicillin, such as Staphylococcus aureus or Golden Staph, Australian scientist Adam Britton told Reuters on Tuesday. There was also a more powerful killer of the HIV virus that the human immune system.
Britton said the crocodile immune system works differently than the human system directly attacking bacteria immediately an infection in the body.
Over the past 10 days Britton and Merchant have been carefully collecting blood from wild and captive crocodiles, including species of freshwater and saltwater. After recording a crocodile and his band of powerful jaws closed the scientists extract blood from a large vein behind the head.
‘It is a sinus, right behind the head, and it is simply to create a needle into the back of the neck and hit this sinus and then you can get a large volume of blood very simply, “says Britton.
“We are capable of antibiotics that have been verbally,” said Kaufmann. ‘Potentially even antibiotics that could be topically on wounds, say diabetic ulcer wounds. Burn patients often infects the skin and the like. ”
However, the crocodile immune system may be too powerful for humans and must be synthesized for human consumption.
“There are a lot of work to do,” said Britton. “It may take years before we are at a stage when we have something on the market.”
