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Flesh-eating Bugs Surface in Singapore

... Mycobacterium ulcerans (M.ulcerans) is an unusual bacterium closely related to tuberculosis and leprosy. Unlike those diseases, very little is known about M.ulcerans. Ulcerans produces a toxin that breaks down tissue under the skin. Untreated, it spreads inexorably, creating terrible ulcers. It is fairly...

New Strain May Make a Common Bacterial Illness More Severe

Illness related to C. difficile, a bacterium commonly found in hospitals, is becoming more widespread, more severe, and harder to treat,// reports the April 2007 issue of Harvard Women’s Health Watch. Health experts are worried that a new, more virulent strain may be to blame. Certain strains...

Cochlear Implantation Increases Meningitis Risk

...ld needed for pneumococcal baterial infection, the bacterium that causes meningitis. The study’s authors stress that it remains their belief that the benefits of cochlear implants far exceed the risk of meningitis, which can be managed by education and vaccination efforts. Worldwide, 90 of the 60,000 peopl...

Super Bug Turns Super Killer

...of the bacterium, prior to hospital admission. The bacterium in question called Clostridium difficile resides in the gut and makes its victim sick with diarrhea, that’s why the sobriquet “hospital diarrhea”. SV...

Scientists Decode Genome of Oral Pathogen

...team reported that the genome of the gram-positive bacterium is a circular DNA molecule consisting of approxima...this extra DNA was apparently adopted from another bacterium and encodes genes that may give S. sanguinis the ability to survive better in the face of good oral ...

'Invest in Health, Build a Safer Future': World Health Day

... H5A1 causing avian influenza, new variants of the bacterium causing epidemic cholera, microbes responsible forLegionnaire's disease and meningitis. These disease outbreaks are historically unprecedented and are a far greater threat today than they were three decades ago. They maim the existing global...

Scientists Receive Patent for Development of "combination" Proteins to Produce Vaccines for Lyme Disease

...ns that are normally present on the surface of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, but at different parts o...h' immune response more capable of fending off the bacterium than either protein alone," says Brookhaven biologist John Dunn, a researcher on the BNL Lyme diseas...

Hospital Infection Deaths Continue in UK

... difficile (C-diff). Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that causes diarrhea and more serious intestinal conditions such as colitis. It brings to 18 the number of deaths at the James Paget University Hospital (JPH), Gorleston, linked to the bug since the start of December - another seven people have ha...

Key Found to Kill Cystic Fibrosis Superbug

...ess in the armour that protects the B. cenocepacia bacterium from the effects of antibiotics. They hypothesize that preventing the synthesis of a key sugar required for this armour, 4-amino-4-deoxy-L-arabinose (Ara4N), may lead to a susceptibility within the cell membrane to antibiotics. "We are very excite...

Tiny Lives Snuffed Out Due To Bad Plumbing

...he crowded ward and searched for the source of the bacterium but over the next 18 months, five more babies died...December 2005 that authorities discovered that the bacterium was breeding in the ward's sinks, which were not draining properly. Sainte-Justine officials claim...

Asthma can Be Checked, Experts are Confident

... found that people who carry a once-common stomach bacterium called helicobacter pylori were 40 per cent less likely to have asthma at an early age than those who didn't carry the strain. "Helicobacter is an ancient organism that everyone used to have in the stomach - and now it's disappearing," Dr. Blaser ...

Scientists Discover Rare ‘gene-for-gene’ Interaction That Helps Bacteria Kill Their Hot

...idence for a gene-for-gene interaction between the bacterium and the insect,” said Richard ffrench-Constant (correct) of Exeter University. “Photorhabdus is an important biocontrol organism that is used to control insect pests and reduces pesticide use, so the more we know about it, the more useful it can b...

Legionnaires Outbreak in Australia

...y fatal form of pneumonia and it is caused by the bacterium Legionella pneumophila and related bacteria that c...whirlpool spas. If conditions are favourable the bacterium may grow creating conditions in which the risk from legionnaires' disease is increased.The illness i...

Fate of France's Cheeses in Doubt as Producers Cite Health Risks

...k of illnesses in children was linked to a harmful bacterium in Reo cheese, but he has since further increased health checks and insists eating 'lait cru' Camembert is much less dangerous than driving a car. His biggest concern is that Lactalis will prevail on the National Institute for Quality and Certifica...

New Bacterium Discovered - Related to Cause of Trench Fever

A close cousin of the bacterium that debilitated thousands of World War I soldiers...ive work revealed that she was infected with a new bacterium that had never before been isolated from a human. A UCSF infectious disease team, in collaboration...

Crackdown on Dirty Hospitals in UK

...ium difficile. While Clostridium difficile [is a bacterium that causes diarrhea and more serious intestinal conditions such as colitis, .MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It is shorthand for any strain of Staphylococcus bacteria which is resistant to one or more conventional antibi...

IDRI and Chembio to Develop Tests for Leishmaniasis and Leprosy

... intra-cellular pathogen Mycobacterium leprae -- a bacterium that is related to the organism that causes tuberculosis. The bacillus primarily grows within lesions in the cooler body areas such as the skin, limbs, eyes, and nasal cavity. The damage of the peripheral nerves leads to muscle weakness and atrophy, ...

Rapid Syphilis Could Prevent Congenital Disease and Stillbirths in Haiti

...a blood test for antibody response to the syphilis bacterium -- an approach that requires a one-week waiting period for follow-up and treatment. The third strategy is rapid testing that permits immediate diagnosis and treatment initiation at a single clinic visit. According to the World Health Organization (...

Genome of Botulism Bacterium Revealed

...ed. The report in Genome Research reveals that the bacterium does not possess the means to escape human defences or resist antibiotics. C. botulinum exists as a dormant spore or a scavenger of decaying animal remains in the soil; its interaction with human or other large animal hosts does not involve long peri...

Understanding Why C. Difficile Causes Disease -- It's Hungry

...cd locus. Two of the genes code for the toxins the bacterium produces that cause disease and a third gene codes for a protein that makes a hole in the organisms cell envelope to let the toxins out. The last two genes are of greatest interest to Sonenshein and his colleague, Bruno Dupuy from the Institut Pasteu...

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