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‘Sweet Revenge’ on Inflammatory Bowel Diseae

...o treat inflammatory bowel disease or IBD//. The bacterium ; Bacterium ovatus, one of the ‘good’ bacteria in the human gut, was engineered to produce human growth factors called cytokines. These were used to repair the epithelial calls in the gut damaged by the disease, hence reducing the inflammation. Whil...

Melioidosis Disease Warning After Heavy Desert Rain

... The department's Dr Rosalie Schultz said that the bacterium causing the disease usually enters the body through small cuts in the skin. "If it's a severe infection, it can develop within two days but the usual incubation period is about three weeks," she said. Inhalation of dust or droplets, or swallowing c...

Yaws Disease - Making a Comeback After 50 Years

...ion to Asia and South America. Yaws is a spiral bacterium that consumes the skin, cartilage and bones. Victims are often left with holes instead where their lips or noses should be. Spiral bacteria are similar to those that cause syphilis but can be treated with a single dose of penicillin. The global hea...

Quarantine Sought For Harsh TB Strain

...tion is believed to be infected. It is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is spread through coughing or sneezing. The disease can be easily cured with cheap antibiotics, but misuse has resulted in mutations that have rendered the drugs ineffective and made resistant TB a growing p...

Disabling Key Protein may Give Physicians Time to Treat Pneumonic Plague

The deadly attack of the bacterium that causes pneumonic plague is significantly slow...tentially could be used in a terrorist attack. The bacterium that causes plague, Yersinia pestis, is vulnerable to antibiotics, but by the time an unusual infect...

Scientists Find Potential Weakness In Plague Germ

.../, according to a study published on Thursday. A bacterium known as Yersinia pestis causes both bubonic plagu...also is acute concern terrorists could harness the bacterium as an airborne germ warfare agent to spread pneumonic plague. Writing in the journal Science, scie...

Lethal Hospital Bug Tough to Knock Down, Statistics Reveal

...s.” Clostridium difficile is a common gut-living bacterium found in healthy people. It does not normally become a problem unless the balance of gut bacteria is upset by illness, or also by treatments such as antibiotics. Symptoms range from nothing at all to very bad diarrhea, and in a few cases it can lea...

Different Treatments Needed For Breathing Problems

... Hardy's research involves pneumonia caused by the bacterium M. pneumoniae, commonly called walking pneumonia, ... might exacerbate it." Because the M. pneumoniae bacterium is difficult to kill and often remains in the lungs even after antibiotic treatment and the symptoms...

Rhode Island Biotechnology Company Develops Tularemia Vaccine

...s protective immunity. Francisella tularensis is a bacterium considered to be one of the most dangerous potential bioterror agents. This vaccine project was funded by a BioDefense Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a division...

Bacteria Fighter Goes Where Antibiotics Can't

...ks Pseudomonas aeruginosa. P aeruginosa is the bacterium behind serious lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis and some types of pneumonia and meningitis, as well as less serious but widespread infections such as “swimmer’s ear” and urinary tract infections. The research was reported in the Janu...

Shedding New Light on Proteorhodopsin

...at when the ability to respire oxygen is impaired, bacterium equipped with proteorhodopsin will switch to solar power to carry out vital life processes. “Our research shows that proteorhodopsin contributes to a bacterial cell’s energy balance only under certain environmental conditions, namely when the cell...

Copper Alloys Surfaces Touted As Pathogen Killers

...on in their products. E. Coli O157:H7 is a harmful bacterium primarily found in raw and undercooked ground beef or foods that come into contact with raw meat. The study could counter a current trend in the food-processing sector to use equipment made of stainless steel in their plants. Stainless steel is b...

High Rates of Latent TB Infection Found in Russian Health Workers

...rd of the world's population are infected with the bacterium that causes the disease, in most people the infection remains 'latent'. It is important to detect latent infection in order to reduce the spread of the infection and to hold back the rise in the number of active cases. Working in Samara City in the R...

Mathematical Model Predicts Cholera Outbreaks

...the world, results from a bacterial infection. The bacterium takes up residence in the intestines, causing vomiting and diarrhea, which can lead to severe dehydration and death if patients are not promptly treated. Source-Eurekalert...

Bacterium Could Treat PCBs Without the Need for Dredging

...elaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a tiny bacterium that could one day transform the way we remove polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from our environment//. The organism could be the key to developing methods that help detoxify commercial PCB compounds on site — without the need for dredging. The res...

Flies too Have Immune Memory!

... encounter a microbe a second time. Pham found a bacterium - Streptococcus pneumoniae - that infected the fli...een infected. To ensure it wasn't a fluke of the bacterium she chose, she tested other organisms. She identified a fungus that infects fruit flies in the wild,...

Tuberculosis – 125 Years Since Discovery, Yet a Challenge to Dat

...ills one-point-six million people each year//. The bacterium behind the notorious lung disease was discovered m...ail to complete the course of treatment. Thus, the bacterium mutates into drug-resistant strains, posing one of the greatest challenges to world initiatives focu...

Drug-resistant Form of Plague Identified

...on, including streptomycin and tetracyclin. The bacterium is believed to have become resistant to drugs after swapping genes with common food bacteria such as salmonella, E coli and klebsiella. Such bacteria are generally carried in the guts of fleas, which spread the disease by biting infected rodents. ...

Rapid Spread of TB Among Prisoners Causes Concern

...known is an infectious disease that is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. // The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a Swiss-based humanitarian group which is concerned with the welfare of prisoners and also provides aid in conflict zones. The ICRC has expressed anxiety ...

Tooth Decay Bacteria Evolved Along With Man

... at NYUCD, discovered that Streptococcus mutans, a bacterium associated with dental caries, has evolved along w...nicities we know today," Caufield said, "this oral bacterium evolved with them in a simultaneous process called coevolution." "It is relatively easy to trace t...

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