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RE: Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Might Just Be Defeated By The Blood Of Komodo Dragons
Yep! The komodo dragon is very venomous, even if you survive the venom from the bite, the various pathogenic bacteria that live in its mouth can kill you by infection days later.
Are there not many of them? Is that why they are protected?
because dragons are almost endangered animals, because their habitat is now widely inhabited by humans. So humans also should maintain the development of the dragons which are included biodiversity Indonesia.
Actually it seems that the poison of the "dragon" is its main weapon. Its bacteria "only" seem to have an additional side effect: central role of the venom. Maybe this is also interesting. But I guess there will be further examinations.
From the Nat Geo article
Well this isn't right, most of the bacterial species there are virulent.
Nevertheless, yeah! The poison is certainly it's weapon, the possibility of infection is just an unfortunate occurrence that can still get you, if you are lucky and survive the venom. The question these authors were initially intrigued by was... okay so there are these pathogenic bacteria living in the mouth of the dragon (I like calling them a dragon...conjures up fun images in my head), why don't those bacteria infect the animal? They weren't questioning the effect from a bite. :D
Edit: Well there is this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23805543, which states that the majority are not virulent. Hmm...
Right, it doesn't make it less fascinating that for now not all questions are answered. (Actually most of the time reality means to have more questions than answers, so that's nothing to worry about. :-)
Yep, it stands in stark contrast to a publication three years prior Here.
I think I am going to have to be satisfied with having more questions then definitive answers with regards to this for now!