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41 - Of Antibiotics and Soap

The Curious Clinicians

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Serphatic Serpacten and Daptomisin Are Similar in Construction

If you add serfacton to dapto mison in vitro, you see almost immediate loss of anti bacterial activity. Oceso: That is the part that doesn't make sense to me. Why does that happen? Well, so remember that d apto mison has that hydro bic tail that to be able to kill bacteria, it needs to insert into their cellular membranes. And there was a really cool experiment published in the journal of infectious diseases in two thousand five that showed a striking finding. If you combine surfact and daptomison, the surfacta surrounds and like, literally traps the daptosmison molecules. It's essentially what serfacton

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