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    	<h2 class="fw-900 gg-calypso-text anim-hidden fade-in-up">Advantages of Ectolysins over Antibiotics</h2>
    	<p class="gg-calypso-text anim-hidden fade-in-up">Ectolysins have the following advantages over antibiotics</p>
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      <li class="anim-hidden fade-in-left mb-3"><span class="fa-li"><i class="fa fa-check gg-check"></i></span> <h2 class="fw-900 gg-calypso-text">Rapid Action</h2> <p>Ectolysins are rapid acting and cleave the cell wall immediately on contact, within minutes, as against antibiotics that need longer duration to kill the cells.</p>
      <li class="anim-hidden fade-in-left mb-3"><span class="fa-li"><i class="fa fa-check gg-check"></i></span> <h2 class="fw-900 gg-calypso-text">Specific</h2> <p>Ectolysins are very specific to the target bacterial species and hence kill only the target pathogen without affecting the microbiome or the commensal bacterial flora as compared to antibiotics which kill both the pathogens as well as the beneficial bacteria.</p>
      <li class="anim-hidden fade-in-left mb-3"><span class="fa-li"><i class="fa fa-check gg-check"></i></span> <h2 class="fw-900 gg-calypso-text">Mechanism of Action</h2> <p>Ectolysins have novel mode of action- they include enzymatic mechanisms like Muramidase, Glucosaminidase, Amidase or endopeptidase depending upon the cell wall bond targeted by the individual ectolysin.  The availability of a library of enzymatic domains offers the opportunity of protein engineering.</p>
      <li class="anim-hidden fade-in-left mb-3"><span class="fa-li"><i class="fa fa-check gg-check"></i></span> <h2 class="fw-900 gg-calypso-text">Bacterial Activity Independence</h2> <p>Bactericidal activity is not dependent on the metabolic stage of the cell – Ectolysins kill both actively growing as well as stationary phase cells irrespective of the metabolic state. But antibiotics act only on metabolically active cells.</p>
      <li class="anim-hidden fade-in-left mb-3"><span class="fa-li"><i class="fa fa-check gg-check"></i></span> <h2 class="fw-900 gg-calypso-text">Active on Biofilms</h2> <p>Ectolysins are active both on planktonic bacteria &amp; bacterial biofilms as against antibiotics, which act poorly on bacterial biofilms.</p>
      <li class="anim-hidden fade-in-left mb-3"><span class="fa-li"><i class="fa fa-check gg-check"></i></span> <h2 class="fw-900 gg-calypso-text">Less Propensity for Resistance</h2> <p>Ectolysins cleave essential cell wall chemical bonds, which are highly conserved and omnipresent on the bacterial cell surface; hence the propensity for the development of bacterial resistance is low.</p> 
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