http://ewn.co.za/2016/02/03/Beards-have-antibiotic-properties
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Microbiologists from University College London recently took swab samples from 20 beards.
They wanted to test the theory that most contain faecal bacteria.
of course they did...to find that would be sensational headlines.
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But further tests revealed something surprising - beard bacteria has antibiotic properties.
Adam Roberts, senior lecturer in Microbial Diseases at University College London, said “What we do is grid out the individual bacteria on an agar plate which has been pre-inoculated with an indicator strain.
And then we see if that indicator strain can grow right up to the individual colonies from the beards or from anywhere else that we’ve got these bacteria from.
“And we found, quite surprisingly, that the beard isolates were quite capable of killing the indicator strain that we have; showing that they actually produce antibiotics themselves.”
From the beards sampled, about a hundred pure cultures of bacteria were detected.
Around 25 percent of these showed antibiotic activity.
Quote:
Microbiologists from University College London recently took swab samples from 20 beards.
They wanted to test the theory that most contain faecal bacteria.
of course they did...to find that would be sensational headlines.
Quote:
But further tests revealed something surprising - beard bacteria has antibiotic properties.
Adam Roberts, senior lecturer in Microbial Diseases at University College London, said “What we do is grid out the individual bacteria on an agar plate which has been pre-inoculated with an indicator strain.
And then we see if that indicator strain can grow right up to the individual colonies from the beards or from anywhere else that we’ve got these bacteria from.
“And we found, quite surprisingly, that the beard isolates were quite capable of killing the indicator strain that we have; showing that they actually produce antibiotics themselves.”
From the beards sampled, about a hundred pure cultures of bacteria were detected.
Around 25 percent of these showed antibiotic activity.