News tagged with bacilli
The entwined destinies of mankind and leprosy bacteria
Leprosy still affects hundreds of thousands of people today throughout the entire world. An international team headed by EPFL professor Stewart Cole has traced the history of the disease from ancient Egypt to today and in ...
Nov 02, 2009 |
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New test quickly ID's active TB in smear-negative patients
Active tuberculosis can be rapidly identified in patients with negative sputum tests by a new method, according to European researchers. Active tuberculosis (TB) is the seventh-leading cause of death worldwide, and while ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Cultivating a cure for concrete cancer
'Self-healing' concrete is being developed by researchers at Northumbria University which could see cracks in concrete buildings become a thing of the past.
May 01, 2012 |
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Geneticists discover global strategies used by bacteria to adapt to changing environmental conditions
(PhysOrg.com) -- The research findings, published this week in two papers in the journal Science provide new insights into the behavior of bacteria.
Mar 07, 2012 |
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Microbes help children to breathe easily
The incidence of asthma among children in Europe continues to rise. But not all children are equally at risk. Several studies published over the past few years have shown that children living on farms are significantly less ...
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Feb 23, 2011 |
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Study casts doubt on provocative tuberculosis theory
The tuberculosis bacterium is an insidious germ that can lie dormant for many years, then suddenly emerge and cause potentially fatal disease.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 21, 2009 |
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New guidelines for treating complicated skin and soft tissue infections
New evidence-based recommendations developed by the Surgical Infection Society to guide physicians in the diagnosis and management of complicated skin and soft tissue infections have been published in Surgical Infections.
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Microbial menagerie: Junk food binge alters community of microbes in the gut in less than a day
(PhysOrg.com) -- Switching from a low-fat, plant-based diet to one high in fat and sugar alters the collection of microbes living in the gut in less than a day, with obesity-linked microbes suddenly thriving, according to ...
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Nov 11, 2009 |
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Tuberculosis patients can reduce transmissability by inhaling interferon through a nebulizer
A new study published in the September 15, 2009, issue of PLoS ONE found that patients with cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis receiving anti-TB medications supplemented with nebulized interferon-gamma have fewer bacilli in the ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Urine LAM-ELISA poor at diagnosing TB
Urine LAM-ELISA does not appear to be useful as an independent diagnostic test for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). A trial of the new diagnostic, described in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases found that it was ...
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Aug 28, 2009 |
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New drug-resistant TB strains could become widespread, says new study
The emergence of new forms of tuberculosis could swell the proportion of drug-resistant cases globally, a new study has found. The finding raises concern that although TB incidence is falling in many regions, the emergence ...
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Aug 10, 2009 |
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Coming Soon: Tuberculosis Detection with a Chip?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many of the new techniques based on nanotechnology that have been developed for faster and more sensitive detection of pathogens fail in day-to-day clinical use because they require complex sample preparation ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 29, 2009 |
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