Heredia-Rojas, J. A., Torres-Flores, A. C., Rodríguez-De la Fuente, A. O., Mata-Cárdenas, B. D., Rodríguez-Flores, L. E., Barrón-González, M. P., Torres-Pantoja, A.C., & Alcocer-González, J. M. (2011). Entamoeba histolytica and Trichomonas vaginalis: Trophozoite growth inhibition by metronidazole electro-transferred water. Experimental parasitology, 127(1), 80-83.
In vitro experiment, examining whether electronically transferred antibiotics can kill Entamoeba histolytica and Trichomonas vaginalis bacteria. The researchers exposed samples of both parasites to four different liquid samples. 1) Metronidazole, an antibiotic commonly used to treat infections with the aforementioned parasites, 2) plain water, 3) water that had the frequencies transferred from plain water (sham transferred), and 4) water that had the frequencies transferred from metronidazole. The frequency transfer was conducted with a BICOM device. For both parasites, the experiment found that the plain water and sham transferred water did not significantly differ in parasite population per milliliter. The samples treated with transferred water had significantly fewer cells per milliliter than the previous two, and the samples treated with metronidazole had significantly fewer cells per milliliter than the samples treated with transferred water. These results suggest that frequency transferring antibiotics to water can potentially be effective for the treatment of infections.