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Pathogenic bacteria
hidePathogenic bacteria are bacteria that cause infectious diseases. This article deals with human pathogenic bacteria.
Although the vast majority of bacteria are harmless or beneficial, quite a few bacteria are pathogenic. The most common bacterial disease is tuberculosis, caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which kills about 2 million people a year, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Pathogenic bacteria contribute to other globally important diseases, such as pneumonia, which can be caused by bacteria such as Streptococcus and Pseudomonas, and foodborne illnesses, which can be caused by bacteria such as Shigella, Campylobacter and Salmonella. Pathogenic bacteria also cause infections such as tetanus, typhoid fever, diphtheria, syphilis and leprosy.
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News tagged with pathogenic bacteria
'Good' bacteria keep immune system primed to fight future infections
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Scientists have long pondered the seeming contradiction that taking broad-spectrum antibiotics over a long period of time can lead to severe secondary bacterial infections. Now researchers from the University ...
Antibiotics might team up to fight deadly staph infections
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Israel's Weizman Institute of Science have found that two antibiotics working together might be more effective in fighting pathogenic bacteria than either drug on its ...
A single atom controls motility required for bacterial infection
Jan 04, 2010 |
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Bacteria can swim, propelling themselves through fluids using a whip-like extension called a flaggella. They can also walk, strolling along solid surfaces using little fibrous legs called pili. It is this ...
Computer model reveals where food pathogens grow
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An outbreak of food-related illness, such as E. coli-tainted spinach, often leaves food safety experts scratching their heads over the source of the contamination.
Researchers discover key to vital DNA, protein interaction
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher at Iowa State University has discovered how a group of proteins from plant pathogenic bacteria interact with DNA in the plant cell, opening up the possibility for what the scientist ...
Daily bathroom showers may deliver face full of pathogens, says study
Sep 14, 2009 |
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While daily bathroom showers provide invigorating relief and a good cleansing for millions of Americans, they also can deliver a face full of potentially pathogenic bacteria, according to a surprising new ...
Designing probiotics that ambush gut pathogens
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Researchers in Australia are developing diversionary tactics to fool disease-causing bacteria in the gut. Many bacteria, including those responsible for major gut infections, such as cholera, produce toxins that damage human ...
The path to new antibiotics: Researchers find vulnerable enzyme in pathogens
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Researchers at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and University of Maryland have demonstrated that an enzyme that is essential to many bacteria can be targeted ...
'Non-trivial' Crystallization Reveals Antibiotic's Molecular Mode of Action (w/ Video)
Aug 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With the "last resort" antibiotic Vancomycin now plagued by the first signs of bacterial resistance, a scientific collaboration centered at Duke University has identified how a candidate successor antibiotic ...
Study aims to induce recovery from ankylosing spondylitis
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Chinese patients will soon have the opportunity to take part in a study of a novel therapy aimed at reversing the autoimmune disease, ankylosing spondylitis. Approximately 200 patients will be chosen to participate in a clinical ...
How probiotics can prevent disease
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Using probiotics successfully against a number of animal diseases has helped scientists from University College Cork, Ireland to understand some of the ways in which they work, which could lead to them using probiotics to ...
Researchers to develop coatings that kill superbugs
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Bath are to be part of a €3 million Europe-wide research collaboration to pioneer research into safer, more effective anti-bacterial plastics and coatings that can be used ...
Engineered bacterium churns out two new key antibiotics
Feb 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In recent years, scientists have isolated two potent natural antibiotics — platensimycin and platencin — that are highly effective against bacterial infection, including those caused by the most dreaded drug-resistant ...
