Study: Hygiene may cause antibiotics to be ineffective
Although hygiene is good for health, excess hygiene can lead to resistance to antibiotics, often leading to death and disease, according to a recent study.

Comparing all microorganisms and antibiotic resistance, researchers at the University of Graz in Austria showed that microbial diversity decreases in areas with high levels of cleanliness and increases the diversity of resistance.

The team compared the Institute's intensive care unit with clean rooms that are closely monitored by microbes in the aviation industry and public and private buildings with almost no microbial controls.

"In environments with strong microbial control in the intensive care unit and clean rooms used industrially, there are increasing resistance to antibiotics that show high potential for integration with pathogens," said Alexander Mahinert, the university's director.

The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, said that the number of people who get the disease and die from antibiotic-resistant germs is increasing worldwide, noting that stable microbial diversity in clinical areas hampers the spread of resistance.

Gabriel Berg of the University said that with microbial control of pathogens already used in cultivated plants as well as in humans within the framework of fecal culture, it is recommended to follow these ideas in closed areas in the future.