News tagged with enterococcus

Does the sea pose a risk to our health?

A new study has discovered viruses in almost 40 % of more than 1,400 bathing water samples collected from coastal and inland areas in 9 European countries. The findings, presented in the journal Water Research, sugges ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Alarming combo: Bedbugs with 'superbug' germ found

Hate insects? Afraid of germs? Researchers are reporting an alarming combination: bedbugs carrying "superbug" germs.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Challenges in stemming the spread of resistant bacteria in intensive care

A new research study of the effect of a commonly used strategy to reduce the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospital intensive care units (ICU) shows that the strategy had no significant effect. That's the surprising ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New Synthetic Compound Message to Drug-Resistant Bacteria: 'Resistance is Futile'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Illinois have developed a smart new synthetic compound that not only targets some drug-resistant bacteria and kills them, but the ...

Chemistry /

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 2




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Single dose of antibiotic leaves mice highly vulnerable to intestinal infection

Yet another study adds to the growing evidence that antibiotics can disrupt the balance of the intestinal flora, with negative effects on health. A team of researchers from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Chemistry trick renews hope against killer diseases

As infections such as tuberculosis have become immune to an ever widening range of antibiotics doctors have looked on helplessly.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Deciphering the mechanism of an ion pump

From an analysis of the sodium-transporting vacuolar ATPases (V-ATPases) of the bacterium Enterococcus hirae, Takeshi Murata of the RIKEN Systems and Structural Biology Center, Yokohama, and colleagues recently ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Acinetobacter baumannii found growing in nearly half of infected patient rooms

Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR-AB) was found in the environment of 48 percent of the rooms of patients colonized or infected with the pathogen, according to a new study published in the November issue of the ...

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created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Enzymes act like a switch, turning antibiotic resistance on and off in enterococci

Antibiotic-resistant enterococci are a serious problem for patients in the hospital, but little is known about how these bacteria are able to escape antibiotics. New discoveries about the ways in which enterococci turn their ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Making germs glow: New test helps save lives and cuts costs

(Medical Xpress) -- Replacing conventional laboratory tests with a new DNA sequence-based technology to identify pathogens causing bloodstream infections dramatically lowered mortality and health-care costs, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Poultry farms that go organic have significantly fewer antibiotic-resistant bacteria

(Medical Xpress) -- Antibiotic use in conventional animal food production in the United States has created public health concern because it has been shown to contribute to the development of antibiotic-resistant ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

No treatment is the best treatment -- diarrhea in young foals

Horse-breeders are used to the fact that most new-born foals suffer from diarrhoea. Many methods have been suggested to avoid the problem, including supplementing the mothers' diets with ß-carotene, which is known to ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research provides insight into new drug resistance in hospital microbes

Hospitals struggle to prevent the infections that complicate treatment for cancer, joint replacement, heart surgery and other conditions. Hospital-acquired infections are often resistant to multiple antibiotics, leading to ...

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created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bed bugs with MRSA superbug superbad news: expert

As if the recent resurgence of bed bugs wasn’t bad enough, Canadian researchers have found some of the little blood-sucking critters carrying methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, the potentially deadly superbug k ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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