Electronic Microbicide..!!

'Superbug' breakthrough claim

Clinical trials found that the device eradicated MRSA
A company which makes a device to treat conditions like foot ulcers says it has discovered by accident that the device can also kill the MRSA 'superbug'.
MRSA (Methecillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) causes an estimated 2,000 deaths in UK hospitals each year.

Dentron, based at Efailwen in Carmarthenshire, had received £45,000 in financial backing from the Welsh Development Agency, to try to develop a bigger version of its electronic antibiotic, called a biogun
"We actually failed in that," said managing director Jonathan Copus.
"But what we came up with is of far more importance - a way of conquering the MRSA superbug."

Laboratory trials at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend and then a clinical study at a foot clinic at Manchester Royal Infirmary found that the biogun eradicated the MRSA bug in some diabetic foot ulcers.

"It was very successful in getting rid of ulcers with an average diameter of 19mm, although it was less successful with larger ones," said Mr Copus.
"Now the challenge is to find a more efficient delivery system so that larger areas can be treated more effectively."

The biogun, which Mr Copus says is the world's first and only electronic antibiotic, has been available for professionals to buy since 1996. It works by destroying micro-organisms on surfaces such as skin, flesh and dentine with a concentrated stream of electrically-charged air particles.

The device has the approval of the government agency the Medicines and Health Care Products Agency. But further tests will now to be done to see how its uses in killing the MRSA bug can be extended, said Mr Copus.

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A MANCHESTER doctor is gunning for a super bug that has killed hundreds of hospital patients.

For years the bug, known as the 'staph' bacteria or MRSA, has been the scourge of hospital wards often attacking the young, the old and weak.
It is often resistant to anti-biotics. It can cause serious skin diseases especially around surgical wounds and pneumonia. Often it gets such a grip on its victim that they die.

But Manchester Royal Infirmary consultant physician Dr Rayaz Malik believes he has discovered a simple and cheap weapon to zap the 'staph' bacteria.
Weapon is the appropriate word because Dr Malik (pictured right treating a patient) has adapted a medical gun invented by ex-priest Jonathan Copus who used it to treat fungal infections.

Dr Malik found that the pen shaped device wiped out all traces of the lethal bug in nearly two-third of his patients. He and other medics now plan to make a full-scale study to make sure the £1000 biogun really works. The gun eradicated MRSA symptoms with just two hits in a test on 15 patients.
It works by shooting a stream of electrons to the infected areas. The electrons mimic the body's natural defences and creates oxygen oxide, the molecule that kills the bacteria.

Dr Malik said: "With patients with larger infections, the treatment can take longer but with smaller areas of infections, patients just need two treatments and they are cured.