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1. Sugar to kill Bad
Bacteria
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2. Although bacteria are single-celled and microscopically
small, they still need energy to survive, just like us. One of
the most efficient ways of acquiring energy for bacteria is
through sweet, soluble carbohydrates: sugars.
S. pneumoniae is a bacteria
that can quickly develop
antibiotic resistance.
Sickly sweet, sugars and bacterial
disease

4. Whatis
Dysbiosis? Dysbiosis is a fancy word that means an
imbalance of gut bacteria. This could mean one
of three things: the bad bacteria is
overcrowding the good gut bacteria, we don’t
have enough good bacteria, and/or we don’t
have enough diversity of bacteria in our gut (2).
Getting a yeast infection after being on
antibiotics is a classic example of localized
dysbiosis.

6. The sugar technique used by Collins works by waking the
bacteria up and making them eat. Sugar brings the bacteria
back to life and allows them to take up antibiotics, which in
turn, kill the bacteria. Collins and his colleagues tested their
technique on mice with urinary tract infections.

7. SugarHelpsAntibioticsTrick
andKillDeadlyBacteria
Researcher James Collins, a professor of Biomedical
Engineering at Boston University.

8. The sugar technique used by Collins works by waking the
bacteria up and making them eat.
Sugar brings the bacteria back to life and allows them to
take up antibiotics, which in turn, kill the bacteria.
James Collins at the University of Boston and his
colleagues tested their technique on mice with urinary tract
infections. Treatment with antibiotics plus sugar was able to
kill 99.9 percent of the bacteria persisters (in this case, E.
coli bacteria). Treatment with the antibiotic alone had no
effect.
James Collins
(bioengineer)
Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Collins_(bioengineer)