Oregon State University researchers say that they have now found a technique to kill the killing superbugs, often seen as resistant to antibiotics while killing a number of innocent lives, a recent report has revealed.

The Journal of Clinical Investigation's latest issue has published their study, which says that a Vegemite component named nicotinamide can boost the immune system of a person infected by staph bacteria. The almost 1000 times rise in the immune cells' fighting ability thereby helps it to kill the virus.

Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most fatal staph mutations dubbed methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA), the report finds. But, it has been told that niacin or the vitamin B3 acted beyond what impact a normal diet can have on the virus.

Researchers say that it increases the effectiveness of neutrophils, a kind of white blood cells, thus helping it destroy the bug. Though, it is being recommended that humans should not go for high content of the vitamin as no evidence has yet been found that it works well in such case.

Adrian Gombart, an associate author affirmed, "This could give us a new way to treat staph infections that can be deadly, and might be used in combination with current antibiotics".