ALB and bacterial infectious disease: EGCG has been claimed to have a remarkably widerange of beneficial effects, including as an antioxidant and reducing the risk ofcancer, amyloid disease, bacterial infection, HIV infectivity and cardiovascular risk[4,5].In vitro, EGCG in solution is oxidized over a timescale of hours.However in vivo, its stability appears to be greater, and it has beensuggested that this is because it is bound to human serum albumin (HSA), which protectsit [6–8].