Garlic Compound Fights Food-Borne Bacteria

Written by Scientific American Topic - Cancer on May 2, 2012 – 2:24 am -

It’s more bad news for vampires, but good news for the fight against food-borne illness: a compound in garlic is extremely effective at fighting Campylobacter , bacteria that frequently cause intestinal infections. The work is in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy . [Xiaonan Lu et al., " Antimicrobial effect of diallyl sulphide on Campylobacter jejuni biofilms "]

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