“If you take a test tube of HIV and add crocodile serum will have a greater effect of human serum. You can kill a much greater number of HIV viral organisms,” Britton said from Darwin’s Crocodylus Park, a tourism park and research center.
“The crocodile has an immune system which attaches to bacteria and tears it apart and exploding. It ‘like putting a gun to the head of the bacteria and pulling the trigger,” he said.
“It’s called a sinus, right behind the head, and it is very easy just to put a needle into the back of the neck and hit this sinus and then you can take a large volume of blood very simply,” said Britton.
“We may be able to have antibiotics that you take orally, potentially also antibiotics that you could run topically on wounds, say diabetic ulcer wounds, burn patients often have skin infected and things like that,” said Merchant .
“There’s a lot of work to do. It may take years before they can reach a stage where we have something to market,” said Britton.
