Fighting Bacteria Without Antibiotics

About 170,000 people die each year from complications of hepatic cirrhosis in Europe. This widespread disease is caused by alcohol abuse, fatty liver hepatitis and chronic viral hepatitis, with liver cirrhosis developing gradually over a period of years and decades. These cells die and then get replaced by connective tissue. The flow of blood through the liver is blocked by scar tissue, leading to increased pressure in the blood vessels in the intestine, and leads to the leakage of intestinal bacteria that will reach the liver by the blood.

Bacterial infections make up about 1/3 of the fatal cases of hepatic …read more