Team:Groningen:Project:Detection/Infectedwounds

Resistance of anti-microbials, especially antibiotics, cause a major problem in modern medicine world. The World Health Organization state’s “A post-antibiotic era—in which common infections and minor injuries can kill—far from being an apocalyptic fantasy, is instead a very real possibility for the 21st century” (April, 2014)1. Therefore we will not use antibiotics against the infections but rather use a set of Infection Preventing Molecules (IPMs). Little resistance has been shown for these molecules (Source, resistantie against Nsin) and are therefore excellent targets for out fight against infections. More about these IPMs can be read in our secretion page. To further lower the chance of resistance we integrate a detection system in our LactoAid. This detection system prevents unnecessary production of the IPMs and thus lowering the chance of resistance development in bacteria.

Our lactoAid focusses primarily on the treatments of burn wounds. The most occurring infections with burn wounds are caused by Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudonomas aeruginosa. Therefore we designed and assembled two systems to detect these bacteria.