0 Question: Can a bacteria kill an other bacteria? Keywords: bacteria, microbiology Asked by 352anta33 to Rob on 19 Nov 2014.
Robert Hampson answered on 19 Nov 2014:
Most waste products from bacteria are toxic to other bacteria. There are also some bacteria which deliberately release toxic chemicals to kill other competing bacteria.
However, there is one bacteria who’s basically like the SAS when it come to killing other bacteria. You should totally check out this article from Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bacterium-hunts-down-pathogens-1.13727
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