News tagged with strains
New research helps explain why bird flu has not caused a pandemic
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bird flu viruses would have to make at least two simultaneous genetic mutations before they could be transmitted readily from human to human, according to research published today in PLoS ON ...
FDA reviews update to Pfizer vaccine for kids
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Federal health officials on Monday questioned whether to approve an updated version of Pfizer's best-selling anti-infection vaccine for children, despite company studies that failed to meet certain goals.
MRSA strain linked to high death rates
Nov 01, 2009 |
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A strain of MRSA that causes bloodstream infections is five times more lethal than other strains and has shown to have some resistance to the potent antibiotic drug vancomycin used to treat MRSA, according to a Henry Ford ...
Genomes of Two Popular Research Strains of E. coli Sequenced
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers from the United States, Korea, and France has sequenced and analyzed the genomes of two important laboratory strains of E. coli bacteria, one used to study ...
Do 3 meals a day keep fungi away?
Oct 15, 2009 |
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The fact that they eat a lot - and often - may explain why most people and other mammals are protected from the majority of fungal pathogens, according to research from Albert Einstein College of Medicine ...
CDC official downplays risk from swine flu vaccine
Oct 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A top U.S. health official says the risks from not getting the swine flu vaccine are greater than any potential risks associated with the vaccine.
Systems Biology Reveals Diversity in Key Environmental Cleanup Microbe
Aug 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have completed the first thorough, system-level assessment of the diversity of an environmentally important genus of microbes known as Shewanella. Microbes belonging to that genus ...
Manufacturers brewing new swine flu vaccine
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Jul 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Attention is shifting to the world's five leading flu vaccine makers: How fast are they really producing swine flu vaccine, and just how do they plan to test that it works?
Animal TB 'tracker' to speed drug and vaccine studies
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a novel way to monitor in real time the behavior of the TB bacterium in mouse lungs noninvasively pinpointing the exact location of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The ...
'Long-haired' water moulds are the most virulent
Jul 22, 2009 |
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The water mould Saprolegnia can cause skin disease in salmon during its freshwater phase. The mould attacks both fish and eggs and has at times caused great economic loss for the fish farming industry, both in ...
What are the characteristics of clarithromycin-resistant Helicobacter pylori?
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Clarithromycin resistance is an uncommon occurrence among Malaysian isolates of Helicobacter pylori strains, and the mutations A2142G and A2143G detected were associated with low-level resistance.
Arizona researchers to sequence West African rice strain
Jul 13, 2009 |
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A $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow University of Arizona researchers to unlock the genetic code of West African cultivated rice - and along the way to gain knowledge that could help commercial ...
Swine flu resistance testing to grow after US case (Update)
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- U.S. health officials are stepping up testing of swine flu cases for Tamiflu resistance, now that an American has come down with a resistant strain.
Tamiflu resistant swine flu case found in Hong Kong: govt
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Hong Kong on Friday detected a strain of swine flu that was resistant to Tamiflu, the main anti-viral flu drug, the health department reported on its website.
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 ...
