In article <7m7vic$8aa$1 at gxsn.com>,
Graham Shepherd <muhero at globalnet.co.uk> wrote:
>>Toxoplasma isn't a bacterium and can't be treated with antibiotics. It's a
>protozoan.
Perhaps I had misunderstood the article that I read....
But in searching the web to check out the point that you made (above)
I came across a relevant article:
"http://www.apnet.com/inscight/11261997/grapha.htm"
The title of the article is: "Antibiotic Slows Parasites"
and it reports on positive results from research that
demonstrated that antibiotics designed to
kill bacteria can also slow the growth of a multicellular parasite
in petri dishes. According to the article:
"The
researchers treated a petri dish culture of human
connective tissue cells that were infected with
Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that infects AIDS
patients. Not only did the antibiotic ciprofloxacin
inhibit apicoplast DNA copying by 50%, it also slowed
parasite reproduction threefold and killed them soon
afterward."
--- Bill
