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Dysentery uses 'sword and shield' to cause infection

...ientists have found that the bacterium that causes dysentery uses a 'sword and shield' approach to cause infect...ce of the bacteria acts as a shield to protect the dysentery bacterium from being destroyed by the body's immune system. Dr Christoph Tang, from Imperial Colleg...

To Stop Evolution: New Way Of Fighting Antibiotic Resistance Demonstrated By Scripps Scientists

...ealth Organization (WHO), large-scale epidemics of dysentery driven by this pathogen have been known to cause tens of thousands of deaths in Central America, South Asia, and central and southern Africa. Treating multiple drug-resistant bacterial infections can be a hundred times more expensive than treating n...

Silence of the amoebae

...ine-dwelling parasites that cause life-threatening dysentery in many parts of the world. Three years ago, scientists at the Weizmann Institute accidentally discovered a way to silence the expression of a key amoebic gene, one which codes for a toxic protein that kills human intestinal cells infected with this ...

Mayo Clinic collaboration mining of ancient herbal text leads to potential new anti-bacterial drug

...werfully, so that one should use them with care in dysentery cases, because that illness or affliction should not be halted too quickly; and some considered this medicament a great secret, and relied on it completely."...

Professors to develop hand-held pathogen testing device

... air, water or food for pathogens like cholera and dysentery must be done one pathogen at a time. Testing for each pathogen on an individual basis is dangerous, more expensive and time consuming. Simultaneous testing simplifies the process, making it safer and more cost effective. Earlier this year, Hashsh...

Hope for major advance in fighting world killer disease

...ing more than 14 days, and Shigella, the cause of dysentery - are the most deadly in terms of killing children. They cause only 20% of cases of diarrhoea but result in 60% of deaths. It is these two killers - EPEC and Shigella - that the Leicester-led project is targeting. Peter Williams, Professor of ...

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