The group of bacteria counteracted antibiotic-resistant MRSA in lab experiments. The bacteria, mixed into honey, has healed horses with persistent wounds.
They have now suggested that bacteria from bees can be a possible alternative to antibiotics.
Raw honey has been used against infections for millennia, before honey – as we now know it – was manufactured and sold in stores.
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a unique group of 13 lactic acid bacteria found in fresh honey, from the honey stomach of bees. The bacteria produce a myriad of active antimicrobial compounds. While the effect on human bacteria has only been tested in a lab environment thus far, the lactic acid bacteria have been applied directly to horses with persistent wounds.
The lactic acid bacterial(LAB) was mixed with honey and applied to 10 horses; where the owners had tried several other methods to no avail. All of the horses’ wounds were healed by the mixture.
