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Tag: "microbe" at medical news

Gene clue to antibiotics

...dentally Streptomyces is also quite similar to the microbe that causes tuberculosis. So this research may reveal insights into the biology of this important disease, which still poses a major threat to humanity....

Memory loss associated with microbes

...nfusion, scientists have warned. The single-celled microbe was first identified in Maryland, USA.//It can cause dementia-like symptoms with sufferers experiencing memory loss and difficulties with concentration, attention span and learning abilities. People suffer a stinging or burning sensation to the ski...

Mutating viruses helps produce antibodies

...empts to evolve resistance, adapting to attack the microbe even when the germ is not in a host. The scientists are coming up with biotechnology applications such as artificial antibodies from this mutation process by working with chemist Gregory Weiss of the University of California in Irvine. For instance,...

Dietary cure for fighting Helicobacter pylori

...mach cancer.// It's now well established that this microbe is responsible for ulcers and even stomach cancer. Clearing it with antibiotics is an important form of treatment in gastrointestinal problems. Now researchers at Hopkins Medical School found that sulforaphane, a compound found in broccoli and bro...

Molecule aids fight E. Coli Infections

...-fighting cells which are used to swallow a common microbe that can impose havoc with the digestive system and which has been implicated in many outbreaks of food poisoning.An analysis of the defense tactics of the immune system of the fruitfly Drosophila led investigators to pinpoint a molecule that enginee...

India Has The Oldest And Largest Collection Of Preserved Mosquitoes – Mosquito Museu

...usually caused by a mosquito bite and the parasite microbe is passed from the mosquito to the blood through a sharp hypoderme needle like sting. The plasmodium is transmitted by transfusion of infected blood....

Controversy: Malaria Vaccine - Future Possibility Or Just A Dream?

...usually caused by a mosquito bite and the parasite microbe is passed from the mosquito to the blood through a sharp hypoderme needle like sting. It is transmitted by transfusion of infected blood. More on Medindia: http://www.medindia.com/news/view_news_main.asp?x=5789 http://www.medindia.net/patien...

What Ticks the Mosquito immune system?

...to certain microbes or compounds that resemble the microbe molecules responsible for immune activation." In this study, the investigators also analyzed the immune responses of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes to infection with different Plasmodium parasite species, one that causes malaria in humans and another...

Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic Therapy Proved Effective in CAP Cure

... presumed to be of bacterial origin, the causative microbe could not be identified in the lab. Therefore, the results from bacterial cultures are not considered central to the clinical care of the patient. At the start of the study, all participants were deemed similar with respect to the pneumonia severit...

Biomarker Reduces Length of Antibiotic Treatment

... presumed to be of bacterial origin, the causative microbe could not be identified in the lab. Therefore, the results from bacterial cultures are not considered central to the clinical care of the patient. At the start of the study, all participants were deemed similar in respect to the pneumonia severity ...

A Chewing Gum That Helps in Fighting Tooth Decay

...hey cannot adhere on to teeth. Lactobacillus is a microbe that is naturally found in yoghurt and buttermilk. Executive director at BASF, Stefan Marcinowski, said the product "has been tested on large numbers of people and demonstrated the ability to significantly reduce bacterial levels.” He added, “The ...

Tuberculosis: The Bacillus Takes Refuge in Adipose Cells

...tive for tuberculosis, people with no trace of the microbe in the lungs may develop some form of tuberculosis attacking the lungs, bones or genitals. It also suggests that isoniazid treatment, prescribed to the close friends and family of patients as a preventative measure, may in some cases not provide suff...

The Uncommon Pathway of Campylobacter Jejuni

...entry pathway, Watson and Galán could watch as the microbe infected a host cell, briefly associated with the early marker protein EEA-1, and then with the late marker Lamp-1. "Although the marker proteins indicated that campylobacter trafficked to conventional lysosomes, information from traceable dyes ind...

The Longest Living Ulcer Bug With Humans

...ration and diversification. H.pylori is the only microbe known to thrive well in the acidic environment of the stomach and affects the mucus lining of duodenum and stomach. Until a few years back, peptic ulcers and gastritis was attributed to spicy food and stress but now it has been understood that H.pylo...

Bacteria Fighter Goes Where Antibiotics Can't

...ed out a way to turn one of nature’s most powerful microbe //fighters into a guided missile that strikes specifically at a common bacteria responsible for serious infections throughout the body. Professor Amram Mor of the Biotechnology and Food Engineering Faculty and his colleagues revamped an antimicrobi...

Flies too Have Immune Memory!

...ght to ask what happens when the flies encounter a microbe a second time. Pham found a bacterium - Streptococcus pneumoniae - that infected the flies but didn't kill all of them. "I liken my work to the first vaccination experiments," said Pham, who is first author of the study. She essentially vaccinated ...

Drug-resistant Form of Plague Identified

...d genetic sequences from the drug-resistant plague microbe and compared them with similar sequences from food bacteria. They found a nearly identical 180-gene segment responsible for drug resistance in all of the organisms. "The resistance is carried by these genes and they can transfer easily from one st...

Rapid Spread of TB Among Prisoners Causes Concern

...rd of the population all over the world carry this microbe and annually about 9 million people are hospitalized affected by active tuberculosis. PRI...

MIT Biologists Solve Vitamin Puzzle

...el method for identifying mutant strains of a soil microbe that could not form a symbiotic relationship with a plant. Walker's team has now found that one such mutant has a defective form of an enzyme known as BluB that leaves it unable to synthesize B12. BluB catalyzes the formation of the B12 fragment ...

Scientists Explore Ways to Lure Viruses to Their Death

...ecies of bacteria called Pseudomonas phaseolica, a microbe that lives on plants. The bacteria grab onto plants with long sticky hairs, which they retract to bring themselves close to their hosts. The phi-6 virus attaches to proteins on the hairs, and when the bacteria retract, the viruses can invade them. ...

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