News tagged with burkholderia pseudomallei
Pathogenic soil bacterium is influenced by land management practices
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Researchers from Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, Australia have found that the soil bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which causes the emerging infectious disease melioidosis in humans and animals, is ass ...
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Gene against bacterial attack unravelled
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Oct 28, 2008 |
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Dutch researcher Joost Wiersinga from AMC Medical Center in Amsterdam has unravelled a genetic defense mechanism against the lethal bacteria Burkholderia pseudomallei. The research is the next step towards a vaccine against ...
Better together: Bacterial endosymbionts are essential for the reproduction of a fungus
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Apr 05, 2007 |
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Endosymbiotic relationships—in which one organism lives within another—are striking examples of mutualism, and can often significantly shape the biology of the participant species. In new findings that highlight the extent ...
Soaring or snoring? Fruit fly's immune system responds differently when asleep
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A fruit fly's immune system can tell time—and how hard it punches back against infections depends on whether the fly is snoozing or cruising. The discovery by medical school researchers could ...
Cosmetic products may cause fatal infections in critically ill patients
Jan 31, 2008 |
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Healthy consumers can handle the low levels of bacteria occasionally found in cosmetics. But for severely ill patients these bacteria may trigger life-threatening infections, as patients in the intensive care unit at one ...
Snoring or soaring? Strength of fruit-fly immune system varies
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Dec 14, 2008 |
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A fruit fly's immune system can tell time, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found, and how hard it punches back against infections depends on whether the fly is snoozing or cruising. The discovery ...
Key found to kill cystic fibrosis superbug
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Researchers from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario , working with a group from Edinburgh, have discovered a way to kill the cystic fibrosis superbug, Burkholderia cenocepacia.
Scientists Identify Bacteria That Increase Plant Growth
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Jan 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Through work originally designed to remove contaminants from soil, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and their Belgium colleagues at Hasselt University ...
Cigarettes harbor many pathogenic bacteria: Study
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Cigarettes are "widely contaminated" with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher ...
Computer-designed molecule to clean up fluorocarbons?
Mar 02, 2007 |
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The chemical bond between carbon and fluorine is one of the strongest in nature, and has been both a blessing and a curse in the complex history of fluorocarbons. Now, in a powerful demonstration of the relatively ...
New Way to Target and Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found
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Jul 09, 2007 |
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Putting bacteria on birth control could stop the spread of drug-resistant microbes, and researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found a way to do just that.
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