Hope For Better Drugs To Treat Yeast Infection Men?
October 7th, 2008 -- Posted in yeast infection remedy | No Comments »It is known, drugs are not able to eliminate all of yeast microorganism in one treatment. Yeast microorganism that survived the drug will adapt and develop resistant to drug making it more difficult to treat in future. This is bad news for yeast infection men since it implies the yeast infection has becomes harder to cure. Researchers have been trying to study ways to reduce drug resistant ability of yeast microbes.
Here is what I got from ScienceDaily:
Evolution of a much-maligned yeast shows that drug resistance is a predictable outcome of exposure to drugs, say University of Toronto botanists. Microbes that survive drug treatment often become drug-resistant. Researchers in the labs of Professors Jim Anderson and Linda Kohn of botany have determined how this happens by studying the yeast Candida albicans and its genetic changes when exposed to drugs. “Ultimately, our findings could lead to the development of companion drugs that target these sets of genes, delaying or preventing the evolution of resistance to the therapeutic drug,” says doctoral student Leah Cowen, the study’s lead author.
Researchers grew over 330 generations of the yeast - a common inhabitant of healthy humans that causes thrush, diaper rash and infections in women as well as life-threatening infections in immuno-compromised individuals - in the presence of the widely prescribed anti-fungal drug fluconazole. Drug resistance increased as the researchers had predicted. While they saw expected changes to the molecular pumps (which remove a variety of drugs from cells), they also noted changes in hundreds of genes. More surprisingly, they found the altered genes displayed three distinct patterns - a finding replicated in patient samples. Recognizing these patterns will make it easier for scientists to target drug therapy, Cowen says.
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What do you think? Much hope for better treatment for yeast infection men? We do hope they will be able to find better solution for yeast infection men treatment. One question begs an answer, wouldn’t it be likely that the yeast microbes will adapt and become resistant to this new set of drugs? Science and drugs have definitely come a long way and have many merits, however natural cure still proves to be most effective so far. More studies should be done to discover the healing power of nature’s produce.