Faith Gagne wrote:
I thought that silver strangles (so to speak) bacteria. How can bacteria become resistant to non-breathing? I mean, can one become resistant to a pillow over one's airways? Faith g.
The ones I have read about, those which are in silver rich soils, have silver ion pumps. When a silver ion makes its way into the cell, the ion pump immediately pumps it right back out.
Marshall
----- Original Message ----- *From:* Dee <mailto:[email protected]> *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> *Sent:* Monday, July 21, 2008 7:23 AM *Subject:* Re: CS>Silver resistant bacteria I suppose if we knew *how* silver kills bacteria, then we could find out how they can become resistant. I had always thought that bacteria couldn't become resistant because silver doesn't work in the same way as ABX's. Dee/-------Original Message-------/ /*From:*/ M. G. Devour <mailto:[email protected]>/*Date:*/ 21/07/2008 02:36:39 /*To:*/ [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> /*Subject:*/ Re: CS>Silver resistant bacteriaI agree it is quite interesting, Michael. The only silver resistant bacteria we've heard about before were foundin mineral deposits where silver was in high concentration in the growth medium. Resistance was quickly lost by future generations of the "bugs" when removed from the silver rich environment. At least a few common types of bacteria were found to behave this way if I remember the stories right.
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