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Antibacterial Clay Shows Promise

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SOURCES: 2007 Medical Reference from Medstar Television. Shelley Haydel, PhD, Microbiologist, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Lynda Williams, PhD, Geochemist, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

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Narrator:

This French clay has researchers in Arizona extremely excited.

Shelley Haydel, Ph.D.:

Is this the big breakthrough that I'm going to encounter in my career? And actually, I think it might be.

Narrator:

This healing clay may one day become a potent weapon in the fight against bacteria. It's already been documented to kill a virulent form of flesh eating bacteria found in Africa.

Shelley Haydel, Ph.D.:

Once the disease becomes ulcerative, there's no known antibiotic that will allow physicians to treat these particular patients.

Narrator:

So scientists at Arizona State are looking at two different clays to unlock the secret of the healing powers.

Shelley Haydel, Ph.D.:

We have a really good comparison, because we have two different clays, one that kills completely, almost completely, most bacteria and the other one that doesn't kill at all.

Lynda Williams, Ph.D.:

We're closer than ever before at understanding healing clays.

Narrator:

Geochemist Lynda Williams is responsible for studying the specific properties of the clay.

Lynda Williams, Ph.D.:

We want to know if there are other clays out there that have similar properties and kill all the same bacteria or if perhaps different types of clays from different environments kill specific bacteria.

Narrator:

The process isn't easy but Doctor Haydel simplifies it for us.

Shelley Haydel, Ph.D.:

What we really do is we just take the clay and we mix it with a certain concentration of bacteria and we allow that to incubate for a certain period of time.

Narrator:

The clay's antibacterial action could really shake things up.

Lynda Williams, Ph.D.:

I can imagine all kinds of applications in hospitals where you might be able to put coatings on instrumentation or something that would sterilize the instrumentation.

Narrator:

All by modeling a medical marvel…out of clay. For WebMD, I'm Sandee Lamotte.

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