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Australian oyster protein can kill bacteria and increase effectiveness of antibiotics

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Australian scientists have discovered that a protein found in the haemolymph - the equivalent of blood - of the Sydney rock oyster, Saccostrea glomerata, can kill bacteria itself and increase the effectiveness of some conventional antibiotics.

Antimicrobial resistance has been described as a looming global health crisis’.