Journals on Preventive Medicine - BJSTR Journal

Abstract

The twenty first century human beings face innumerable health and environmental issues due to #anthropogenic activities such as destruction of nature in the name of scientific development, industrialization and introduction of #xenobiotic components without minding the future. Nature has its own ways to maintain sustainability without affecting flora and fauna. One such wonder of nature is the periplasmic predatory bacterium that feeds on other bacteria, #Bdellovibrio, the world's smallest hunters (0.2-0.5^m wide and 0.5 -2.5^m long) that support environment, agriculture, food processing and control human ailments. The antibiotic resistance, medicine's most pressing and emerging problem has forced the scientists to look for alternative treatments to combat bacterial infections. This global issue can be overcome by one of the alternative treatment of using predatory bacteria as "#living antibiotics” replacing the use of conventional antibiotics. Recent findings indicate an intricate interplay between the predatory bacteria and the prey with reciprocal effects acting as ecological balancers [1]. Stolp and Starr identified Bdellovibrio #bacteriovorus, the gram negative, highly motile organism with single sheathed polar flagella and described as predatory, ectoparasitic and bacteriolytic [2].

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Predatory Bacteria-Bdellovibrio and Like Organisms (Balos) A Prospective Rescuer to Alleviate Human Ailments by Palaniswami Rajendran in BJSTR