Antibiotics enhanced by maple

[CharlieVT]

Concentrated extracts of maple syrup combined with antibiotics reduced the growth of four common bacterial strains.

Wall Street Journal article:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/maple-syrup-new-way-to-fight-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-1430746010

I'm not sure the link will work for everyone, or for how long.

Here's the abstract from the original article:

http://aem.asm.org/content/early/2015/03/23/AEM.00239-15.abstract

[morningstarfarm]

Wow! Perhaps we will have a new market in the near future...

[Birddog]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/07/maple-syrup-will-cure-everything.html#

[sjdoyon]

Excellent. If we can get the pharmaceutical companies to make it addictive to the user, well be golden.
Wow! Perhaps we will have a new market in the near future...

[BlueberryHill]

I'm already addicted. No mega-corporation manipulation necessary.

[David in MI]

"Maple syrup extract." How exactly is this produced?