Garlic can more effectively kill pathogenic bacteria

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        People often say that eating garlic to the body has a lot of advantages. A new study further points out that, with garlic two allyl base sulfide also can effectively kill one cause of food-borne diseases of the main bacteria.

        According to published in the British journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy of research report introduces, two allyl base sulfide can kill often cause food-borne diseases of campylobacter, the effect is better than even two common antibiotics.

        The study by the American institutions such as the Washington state university researchers, they use extracted from garlic two allyl base sulfide experiment, found that this kind of material can effectively penetrate campylobacter surface protective film and kill the bacteria, its effect is more commonly used cipro antibiotic erythromycin and more than 100 times more.

        According to the researchers introduces, at present most areas of the main food born diseases caused by campylobacter, the bacteria in the chicken products without careful processing in the food such as. Campylobacter trigger symptoms include fever of food-borne diseases, abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc. The United States centers for disease control and prevention, statistics released, the United States each year about 2.4 million people infected with the disease.

        The researchers said the study results show that the two allyl base sulfide can in the food industry for the sterilization, make food more secure. (HuangKun)