Cold plasma therapy could provide an alternative to antibiotics
Low temperature plasma has been used to kill drug-resistant bacteria in wounds, offering a potential alternative to antibiotics: These blood-agar dishes were seeded with haemolytic Staphylococcus aureus (Credit: Shaginyan, Yurov, Ermolaeva)
Article Summary
Cold plasma has received a further boost as a potential alternative to antibiotics in the fight against multi-drug resistant bacteria. A study published by a Russian-German research team found that just ten minutes of treatment with a low temperature (35-40°C/95-104°F) plasma torch killed drug-resistant bacteria in wound infections in rats and also increased the rate at which wounds healed.
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