“I am every tear out of the arts and despite the fact that living in this environment, with all these microbes, which heal very rapidly and normally almost always without infection, researchers from the United States said Mark Merchant, who has been with samples of blood from crocodiles in the Northern Territory.
Preliminary studies of the crocodile immune system in 1998 found that several proteins (antibodies) in reptile blood killed bacteria that are resistant to penicillin, such as Staphylococcus aureus or golden Staph, Australian scientist Adam Britton said. E ‘was also a potent killer of the HIV virus that the human immune system.
“If you take a test tube of HIV and add crocodile serum, it will have a greater effect of human serum. It can kill a much larger number of HIV viral organisms,” said Dr Britton said from Darwin’s Crocodylus Park, a park and tourist research center.
Said Dr. Britton crocodile immune system worked differently from the human system by directly attacking bacteria once infection has occurred in the body.
“The crocodile has an immune system which attaches to bacteria and tears exceptional and explodes. It ‘like putting a gun to the head of the bacteria and start,” he says.
Over the past 10 days and Dr. Dr. Britton traders have been carefully collecting blood from wild and captive crocodiles, both species of freshwater and saltwater. After capturing a crocodile and strapping its powerful jaws closed the scientists extract blood from a large vein behind the head.
“It’s called a sinus, right behind the head, and it is very easy to just stick a needle in the neck and hit this sinus and then you can take a lot of blood very simply,” said Dr Britton.
The researchers hope to collect enough crocodile blood to isolate the powerful antibodies and eventually develop an antibiotic used by humans.
“Can we have antibiotics that you take orally, potentially also antibiotics that can be run locally on wounds, say diabetic ulcer wounds, burn patients often have skin infection and these things,” says Dr Merchant.
The crocodile immune system may be too strong for humans and may need to be synthesized for human consumption.
“There is much work to do. It may take years before they can reach a stage where we have something to market,” says Dr Britton.
