If we take more sugar beside being causing diabetes and it's allied complication it also leads to spread of a superbug too. A dietary sugar approved as a food additive for use in foods from sushi and vegetables to ice cream may have fuelled the frequency and severity of a deadly superbug, scientists say. The findings showed that trehalose, used in foods as a sweetener, a stabiliser and thickener, as well as a flavour enhancer, enhanced the virulence of bacterium Clostridium difficile ( C. difficile ) -- a bacterium that can cause life-threatening inflammation of the colon and diarrhoea.
C. difficile lineages RT027 and RT078 were found to become dominant more recently around the globe. These lineages grew on low concentrations of trehalose as a sole carbon source and are highly efficient at independently acquiring unique mechanisms to break down low concentrations of trehalose. "In…
