Treatment and prevention of enteric infections with toxin-binding probiotics.

Authors
Category Primary study
JournalDiscovery medicine
Year 2006
Nearly all antibiotics aim at killing the bacteria, which eventually develop antibiotic resistance under "survival pressure." The pathology exerted by many pathologic bacteria is through secreting toxins. Probiotics, either harmless live bacteria or dead ones, can be molecularly engineered to express receptors for the toxins and absorb and eliminate them from binding to their natural receptors, thus reducing or eliminating the pathological impact of bacterial infection.
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First added on: Jan 06, 2023