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Online collaboration identifies bacteria
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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A new website has been launched which allows scientists everywhere to collaborate on the identification of bacterial strains. This new resource, described in the open access journal BMC Biology, provides a portal for electr ...
Novel bacterial strains clear algal toxins from drinking water
Sep 07, 2009 |
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Novel bacterial strains capable of neutralizing toxins produced by blue-green algae have been identified by researchers at Robert Gordon's University, Aberdeen. Aakash Welgama presented the group's findings during the Society ...
What is the pathogenesis of C. jejuni-related disease?
Dec 31, 2008 |
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Campylobacters are small Gram-negative spiral rods. Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni), a foodborne organism contracted from untreated water, milk and meat, especially chicken, is one of the most important causes of bacterial ...
New research lights up chronic bacterial infection inside bone
Dec 22, 2008 |
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A new report demonstrates how a sensitive imaging technique gives scientists the upper hand in seeking out bacteria in chronic infections.
Blue light destroys antibiotic-resistant staph infection
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Two common strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as MRSA, were virtually eradicated in the laboratory by exposing them to a wavelength of blue light, in a process called photo-irradiation that i ...
Research not keeping up with bacteria
Jan 21, 2008 |
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Harmful bacteria are evolving faster than scientists can develop antibiotics to fight them, U.S. researchers say.
The tiny difference in the genes of bacteria
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Every year, diarrhea causes around five million fatalities worldwide. Most people die due to pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria or viruses, which were ingested into the gastro-intestinal tract through contaminated ...
Despite vaccine, public should not get complacent about pneumococcal disease
Jun 03, 2008 |
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Although the childhood pneumococcal conjugate vaccine has been a boon in reducing the incidence invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), the public and the medical community must not get complacent, as non-vaccine strains, some ...
Einstein researchers develop novel antibiotics that don't trigger resistance
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of medicine's most vexing challenges. In a study described in Nature Chemical Biology, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University are de ...
Study provides greater understanding of lyme disease-causing bacteria
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Lyme disease in the U.S. is caused by the tick-borne bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi and usually begins with a skin lesion, after which the bacteria spread throughout the body to the nervous system, heart or joints. About ...
Resistant gut bacteria will not go away by themselves
Jun 19, 2007 |
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E. coli bacteria that have developed resistance to antibiotics will probably still be around even if we stop using antibiotics, as these strains have the same good chance as other bacteria of continuing to colonise the gut, ...
Bacteria in urinary tract infections caught making burglar's tools
Feb 20, 2009 |
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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 ...
Commercial yeasts upgraded with an enzyme for biofuel production
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Eckhard Boles, co-founder of the Swiss biofuel company Butalco GmbH and a professor at Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany, has discovered a new enzyme which teaches yeast cells to ferment xylose into ethanol. Xylose ...
Researchers identify structure of bacteria responsible for traveler's diarrhea
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), the Naval Medical Research Center and the National Institutes of Health, have solved the structure of thin hair-like fibers called "pili" or "fimbriae" on the surface ...
Marijuana ingredients show promise in battling superbugs
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Substances in marijuana show promise for fighting deadly drug-resistant bacterial infections, including so-called "superbugs," without causing the drug's mood-altering effects, scientists in Italy and the United Kingdom are ...
