News tagged with necrotic enteritis

Treating poultry diseases without antibiotics

Identifying antimicrobial proteins in chickens that kill pathogens is one method being used by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists to find alternatives to the use of antibiotics to control infectious ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Triple threat: One bacterium, three plasmids

Researchers from Australia found something completely new while conducting a genetic study of the pathogenesis of an enteric disease in birds. They report what is believed to be the first bacterial strain to carry three closely ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Poultry and diabetics at risk from gas gangrene bug

Gas gangrene, the notorious infectious disease of two world wars can still be a problem today. Professor Richard Titball of the University of Exeter, told the Society of General Microbiology Meeting at the International ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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From biofuels to da Vinci's texts, Berkeley lab database deciphers secrets of microscopic life

(PhysOrg.com) -- A handful of muck or a bucket of water can teem with millions of microorganisms — a few of which could be the next big thing when it comes to learning how to create biofuels or understanding ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Drug use increasingly associated with microbial infections

Illicit drug users are at increased risk of being exposed to microbial pathogens and are more susceptible to serious infections say physicians writing in the Journal of Medical Microbiology. The review, which aims to imp ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Probiotics help extremely premature infants gain weight

Extremely low birthweight infants (ELBW) who received feedings supplemented with probiotics had better weight gain than infants who were not given the supplements, according to a randomized, controlled, double-blind study ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pregnant women can receive breast cancer chemotherapy without endangering health of their babies

Barcelona, Spain: Women who discover they have breast cancer while they are pregnant can be treated with chemotherapy without endangering the health of their unborn baby, according to research to be presented at the seventh ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New cause identified for necrotic enteritis in chicken

Researchers from Monash University and CSIRO Livestock Industries have demonstrated for the first time that alpha-toxin protein, long thought to be required for necrotic enteritis to develop, is not the main cause of the ...

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created Feb 08, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pathway to cell death redefined in landmark study

A new study led by investigators from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine demonstrates that the process of necrosis, long thought to be a chaotic, irreversible pathway to cell death, may actually be triggered ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 20, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 0


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