News tagged with infectious bacterium
Researchers find antibiotic-resistant bacteria deep in one of the largest, unspoiled underground caves
McMaster University and University of Akron researchers are leading the way in understanding the origins of antibiotic resistance, a global challenge that is creating a serious threat to the treatment of infectious ...
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Strep infections responsible for groper deaths
Researchers are in a race against time to save Queensland's protected groper fish, which are washing up dead along the beaches of Northern Queensland in increasing numbers.
Jul 20, 2011 |
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Researchers release complete de novo E. coli O104 genome, details of their detection kit
Scientists worldwide have been working on the publicly available genomic sequences of the deadly E. coli O104 strain, which is causing the current health crisis in Germany and now spreading throughout Europe. To continue to spe ...
Jun 07, 2011 |
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More molecules for tuberculosis
Scientists are collaborating on a new international research project to identify antibiotics that can kill tuberculosis and fight resistant strains.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 11, 2011 |
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Contact among age groups key to understanding whooping cough spread and control
Strategies for preventing the spread of whooping cough -- on the rise in the United States and several other countries in recent years -- should take into account how often people in different age groups interact, research ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 11, 2010 |
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Scientists pry new information from disease-causing, shellfish-borne bacterium
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have uncovered a key weapon in the molecular arsenal the infectious bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus (V. para) uses to kill cells and cause food poisoning in its human host. ...
Aug 19, 2010 |
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Immune evasion common in many viruses, bacteria and parasites is uncommon in M. tuberculosis
Scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered that the strategy of "immune evasion" common to many viruses, bacteria and parasites, is uncommon to M. tuberculosis where the antigens remain strikingly unchanged ...
May 23, 2010 |
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Probiotic without effect against Salmonella
Many tourists travelling abroad go down with diarrhoea, which can be caused by Salmonella. While probiotics are often cited as the solution to various stomach problems, the probiotic, Lactobacillus plantarum has no effect ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 19, 2010 |
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Researchers find that common stomach pathogen may protect against tuberculosis
It's been implicated as the bacterium that causes ulcers and the majority of stomach cancers, but studies by researchers at Stanford University, UC Davis, and the University of Pittsburgh have found that Helicobacter py ...
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Jan 20, 2010 |
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How probiotics can prevent disease
Using probiotics successfully against a number of animal diseases has helped scientists from University College Cork, Ireland to understand some of the ways in which they work, which could lead to them using probiotics to ...
Apr 02, 2009 |
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MRSA study suggests strategy shift needed to develop effective therapeutics
USA300--the major epidemic strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) causing severe infections in the United States during the past decade--inherits its destructiveness directly from a forefather strain ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 17, 2009 |
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What makes C-Diff superbug deadly?
A major breakthrough about the potentially deadly superbug Clostridium difficile (C-diff) could lead to new ways to combat the bacterium, according to a study to be published March 1 in the journal Nature.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 01, 2009 |
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Bacteria in urinary tract infections caught making burglar's tools
Bacteria that cause urinary tract infections (UTIs) make more tools for stealing from their host than friendly versions of the same bacteria found in the gut, researchers at Washington University School of ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 20, 2009 |
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