Soil Based Bacteria May Cause Multiple Sclerosis
A common bacteria found in soil has been detected in humans for the first time, leading scientists to believe it may trigger multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic autoimmune disease. It also gives them hope for finding a new treatment or even a cure for MS.
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and The Rockefeller University were the first to identify the bacterium, Clostridium C. perfringen Type B, in humans. Their study is published online in PLoS ONE.“This bacterium produces a toxin that we normally think humans never encounter. That we identified this bacterium in a human is important enough, but the fact that it is present in MS patients is truly significant because the toxin targets the exact tissues damaged during the acute MS disease process,” says the study’s first author and senior investigator, K. Rashid Rumah, an MD/PhD student at Weill Cornell Medical College.
MS is a chronic disease which attacks the body’s
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