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January 7, 2018 04:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HlFhNyiBEbE/a-popular-sugar-additive-may-have-fueled-the-spread-of-two-superbugs
A Popular Sugar Additive May Have Fueled the Spread of Two Superbugs
Zorro (Slashdot reader #15,797) quotes the Los Angeles Times:Two bacterial strains that have plagued hospitals around the country may have been at least partly fueled by a sugar additive in our food products, scientists say. Trehalose, a sugar that is added to a wide range of food products, could have allowed certain strains of Clostridium difficile to become far more virulent than they were before, a new study finds. The results, described in the journal Nature, highlight the unintended consequences of introducing otherwise harmless additives to the food supply. Nearly half a million people were sickened by C. difficile in 2011, when it was directly linked to 15,000 deaths."The misuse and overuse of antibiotics has long been thought to be responsible for the rise of many kinds of antibiotic-resistant 'superbug'," notes the article, before citing a researcher who now believes "the circumstantial and experimental evidence points to trehalose as an unexpected culprit."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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