Discover the ant knows too " Jointly use medicine " Use many kinds of antibiotic at the same time

Discover the ant knows too " Jointly use medicine " Use many kinds of antibiotic at the same time
Discover the ant knows too " Jointly use medicine " Use many kinds of antibiotic at the same time
Www.xinhuanet.com London 8 Special despatch of the 27th of moon (reporter is yellow) The mankind did not learn to use the first kind of antibiotic in the 20th century - -Penicillin, and the ant has regarded natural antibiotic as pesticide to use for a long time. A new research in Britain reveals, the ant still understands " jointly uses medicine " ,Use many kinds of antibiotic at the same time. This kind of ant that the British scientist studies is named the top to cut the leaf ant, lives in the south of Central America, South America and U.S.A., they use tooth cut little leaves, regard as raw materials, plant the fungi for the food. Because of " crop " The variety is single, fungi " farmland " of the ant Easy to be attacked by the disease, for example the mould is infected. Researchers find before this, cutting the leaf ant will make use of antibiotic that its internal bacterium makes to inhibit the fungi " farmland " In germ,just as not last pest and weeds at farmland. However, this research finds ants will jointly use medicine for the first time. The ant seldom meets germ's drug resistance question, it is probably one of the reasons to unite the administration. British east English's university released the communique and said, the researchers of this school collected the top of three pieces of community to cut the leaf ant from Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean Island country a few days ago, isolate its bacterium that made antibiotic in the body, and find these ants will combine many kinds of antibiotic together and use, very as the administration method of union when the mankind cures the disease. Through this research, scientists have also found a new kind of antibiotic, and have " nystatin " used clinically frequently Similar, this will contribute to researching and developing the new antibiotic medicine. The mankind uses antibiotic for only decades, on the issue that have met serious drug resistance, have resistance to commonly used antibiotic " The super bacterium " Appear more than once. People begin to produce drug resistance through uniting the administration and preventing germs in recent years, the above-mentioned research reveals ants have known this kind of method for a long time. The report on this research results is issued on new British " B M C biology " magazine.


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