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Cranberry bog bacillus

I first read about the cranberry bog bacillus and an enzyme it produces that breaks down the polysaccharide coating of pneumococcus bacteria in the book Tuberculosis The Greatest Story Never Told by Frank Ryan. I found this article here that discusses it.

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2815%2900840-5

Also see https://phys.org/news/2019-05-cranberries-antibiotics-bacteria.html