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Warding off superbugs with a pinch of turmeric

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When curcumin is intentionally given to bacteria as food and then activated by light, it can trigger deleterious reactions within these microbes, killing them.

This process, they demonstrated, reduces the number of antibiotic-resistant strains and renders conventional antibiotics effective again.

Turmeric, the compound that gives turmeric its characteristic bright yellow color, can potentially be used to reduce antibiotic resistance.

Photodynamic inactivation and its effects on the heterogeneity of bacterial resistance. Scientific Reports , 2024 ; 14 ( 1 ) DOI: 10.1038 /s41598-024-79743-y Cite This Page:.

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