Thanks Hanan, As Dr John Hill wrote some years ago, there is no reason to suspect that bacteria will not develop resistance to colloidal silver. Lets hope these do not become wide spread.
Ivan. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, 25 April 2001 13:57 > To: [email protected] > Subject: CS>Bacterial Resistance > > > Came across this recently. Any thoughts? > > ~Hanan > > > http://www.healthsci.tufts.edu/apua/Newsletter/17_3a.html > > Silver cations as an antimicrobial agent: clinical uses and bacterial > resistance > Simon Silver, Jeng-Fan Lo and Amit Gupta > Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of > Illinois, Chicago, > Illinois, USA > > Silver cations (Ag+) are important, often misunderstood compounds > that play a > significant role as effective and legitimate antimicrobial agents, used > particularly in the treatment of burns. Their spectrum of uses is > broad and > generally unfamiliar, ranging from beneficial clinical applications, to > commercial- and folk-practices that are of questionable value but > of little > harm, to "snake oil" products and frauds found through the > internet and in > health food stores. > In an effort to better understand and anticipate the uses of > these compounds, > we recently studied plasmid-mediated resistance to silver. -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
