News tagged with yersinia enterocolitica

The pig of the future might be free of diseases that can infect people

Pigs are known carriers of the bacterium Yersinia enterocolitica, and they can infect both other pigs and people. Human infection occurs through eating improperly-cooked pork. Professor Truls Nesbakken of the Norwegian School o ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Bacteria with a built-in thermometer

Researchers in the "Molecular Infection Biology group" at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig and the Braunschweig Technical University could now demonstrate for the first time that bacteria ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

How plague-causing bacteria disarm host defense

Effector proteins are the bad guys that help bacterial pathogens do their job of infecting the host by crippling the body's immune system. In essence, they knock down the front door of resistance and disarm the cell's alarm ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 24, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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