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Health Officials Suspect Salmonella In Peanut Butter

...rted across 37 states. Salmonella are a group of bacteria that is responsible for causing fever, stomach pain and diarrhea. In United States alone, 40,000 cases and 600 deaths are reported every year. Generally these infections settle down in 5-7 days and in extreme cases dehydration and infection of the in...

New Mechanism for Nutrient Uptake Discovered

...atives of these genes in a variety of species from bacteria to humans. In this study, the scientists wanted to identify how ammonium transport is regulated. Plants import nitrogen in the form of ammonium from the soil. The researchers found that the end portion, or so-called C-terminus, of the protein Arabi...

Unknown Sickness Kills US Honeybees

... a Penn State entomology professor, foreign fungi, bacteria and other organisms were found in an increasing number in the body of the dissected infected bees resulting in a week immune system. Scientists are also looking at a pesticide angle to this problem. JYT...

Tuberculosis Case Alarms Health Officials

...person inhales air containing these particles, the bacteria might enter the lungs and cause infection. Steve Jenison, medical director for the department's Infectious Disease Bureau, said the investigation involves "a large number of contacts due to the close environment of the college," a news release said...

Copper Alloys Surfaces Touted As Pathogen Killers

...s. Brass, which is 85 per cent copper killed the bacteria in three hours. Red brass, which is 93 per cent copper, eradicated it in 4.5 hours. Significant reductions were noted after six hours on Ni- Al bronze (81 per cent copper) and yellow brass (61 per cent copper), the scientists stated. The tests were...

Shedding New Light on Proteorhodopsin

...en deprivation probably explains why so many ocean bacteria express proteorhodopsin.” Liphardt said that the... marine bacteria. The discovery implied that such bacteria possessed phototrophic as well as respiratory capabilities. This would be a critical adaptation for ...

Strep, Psychiatric Symptoms Possibly Linked in Some Children

...tions are common in schools and environments where bacteria are easily spread. They are passed through direct ...will have sore throat symptoms, but they carry the bacteria and can infect others. “The medical perspective has always been that the carrier states are fairly...

Study Urges Doctors to Go Easy on Antibiotics

...ibiotic resistance. It has always be known that bacteria and other microorganisms develop resistance to ant...r six months they would see the rates of resistant bacteria in participants' mouths return to normal levels, yet that did not happen. Stephanie Dancer of Sout...

Bacteria Fighter Goes Where Antibiotics Can't

...ided missile that strikes specifically at a common bacteria responsible for serious infections throughout the ...l—their ability to kill a variety of invaders from bacteria to cancer cells—makes them hard to deploy as a treatment against specific infections. Their “non-spe...

Unknown Species of Bacteria Among a ‘zoo’ of Them on the Human Boy

Scientists have found more than 250 species of bacteria dwelling on the human forearm, around the number ...searcher Martin Blaser to conclude it’s a ‘zoo’ of bacteria out there on the human body. Stating that he wanted to explore the skin as a source of bacteria, a...

Human Skin Harbors Many More Types of Bacteria

...t organ in our body harbors many more new types of bacteria than that was thought previously. Researchers said...l. Researchers found evidence for 182 species of bacteria in skin samples. Eight percent were unknown species that had never before been described. ‘Not on...

How Bacteria Generate Energy to Live?

...ic Institute have discovered new details about how bacteria generate energy to live. In two recently published...enzyme, known as NQR, pumps sodium ions out of the bacteria to generate a difference in concentrations between outside and inside. This gradient acts like a bat...

Different Treatments Needed For Breathing Problems

...has been using mice to study how certain pneumonia bacteria contribute to chronic asthma and, in this latest study, identified how a particular gene may contribute to more severe lung infection. The research appears in the January edition of Infection and Immunity. Pneumonia is a lung infection typically ...

Bacteria Harnessed as Micro-Robot Motors

Normally we want to avoid having bacteria in our eyes, urethras, and spinal columns, but res...his problem, by exploiting the natural movement of bacteria to propel micro-objects through water. Many bacteria propel themselves along in a fluid by rotati...

Lethal Hospital Bug Tough to Knock Down, Statistics Reveal

...ormally become a problem unless the balance of gut bacteria is upset by illness, or also by treatments such as... can lie dormant. Breeding grounds of both these bacteria include public washrooms and taps, doorknobs, washcloths, towels etc. <BR...

World Leprosy Day – Easing Pain and Giving Hop

...rable. Antibiotics are capable of annihilating the bacteria and within a few months of treatment, the disease can be completely cured. Patients can avoid several complications, if the disease is diagnosed early. In the event of complications, advanced medical treatment is capable of reversing nerve damage in ...

Scientists Find Potential Weakness In Plague Germ

...ague. It is a two-phase disease that begins with bacteria multiplying rapidly in the lungs, but with no symptoms. About 36 hours after exposure, the disease progresses into a second phase, with a lot of inflammation and symptoms. Bacteria invade the spleen and other organs and an overwhelming, rapidly dev...

Bacteriophages may Boost the Effectiveness of Antibiotics

...that boosts antibiotic effectiveness. 'Pseudomonas bacteria for example are particularly multi-resistant to an...the efflux effect,' Hagens explains. Pseudomonas bacteria cause pneumonia and are a common cause of hospital-acquired infections. Experiments in mice reveal...

No Thanks to Raw Sprouts

... low-calorie food among Canadians. But the harmful bacteria that may be harbored in them can cause severe illness. Contaminated sprouts have been found to be the cause behind several outbreaks of Salmonella and E. coli infections. The most recent one occurred in Canada in the fall of 2005, with 648 cases of...

Disabling Key Protein may Give Physicians Time to Treat Pneumonic Plague

... substances. Shortly before infected mice die, the bacteria also begin showing up in the spleen and other organs, spreading there via the bloodstream. Previous research had suggested that pneumonic plague might be spreading in the body in part through use of a protein known as plasminogen activator (PLA). ...

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