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Eczema patients lack natural antibiotic in skin

...n why 90 percent of atopic dermatitis patients are colonized by staphylococcus aureus and 30 percent develop active infections," said the study’s senior author, Donal Leung, Head of Pediatric Allergy-Immunology at National Jewish Medical and Research Center, in Denver. "It is important to understand why people...

Genetically modified bacteria to combat HIV

...acteria were introduced in mice, they successfully colonized parts of the lower gut, and were also found in lower concentrations in the vagina. The research findings appear in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Writing in the journal, the researchers said there was an urgent need ...

Receptor for H.pylori Identified in Stomach

...any symptoms. The vast majority of H. pylori in colonized hosts are free-living, but approximately 20% bind to gastric epithelial cells. This binding induces an immune response and alters the morphology and behavior of the epithelial cells due to injection of bacterial proteins into the cells. This interact...

Venereal Cancer in Dogs Transmitted by Contagious Cancer Cells

...ed from dog to bitch and bitch to dog until it had colonized all over the world." Genetic analysis has suggested that the cancer probably originated from a cancer in a single wolf or closely related Asian breed such as a husky or Shih Tzu between 200 and 2,500 years ago. The result of the study is published ...

Pregnant Women With Placental Infection Have Doubled Risk of Recurrence

...tudy. “We also believe that certain women could be colonized with bacteria that are more virulent and more likely to cause infection.” The report, appearing in the December issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is the largest clinical study to address the topic, Dr. Laibl said. The researchers focused on wom...

Revealing the Secrets of Gut Ecosystem

... don't know what a human would look like without a colonized gut," said Chana Palmer, the lead author of the ne...immune system; and they help protect us from being colonized by [microbes] that are going to do us harm." Before birth, the human intestinal tract is sterile, ...

US Hospitals Increasingly Colonized by Drug-resistant Germs

...ere identified through test results as infected or colonized with the superbug. The final results represented 1,237 hospitals and nursing homes or roughly 21 percent of U.S. inpatient health care facilities, association officials said. The researchers concluded that at least 46 out of every 1,000 patients...

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