Department of Biological Sciences

The Potential for Using Honey to Treat Wounds with MRSA and VRE

Summarised in this pdf file is the text of a paper presented at the First World Wound Healing Congress, held in Melbourne, Australia, on the 10-13 September, 2000.

Activity of honey against wound-infection bacteria

Summarised in this pdf file are results from published work carried out by the Honey Research Unit and collaborators, using standardised honeys of average-level antibacterial potency (as are available commercially). The honeys used were a manuka honey (with its antibacterial component unique to honeys from Leptospermum species) and another honey that had the usual type of antibacterial activity due to enzymically produced hydrogen peroxide.

Medical Bibliography of medical usage of honey