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Protein discovery could unlock the secret to better TB treatment

...igning drugs which enable treatment of dormant and multidrug resistant TB. In England and Wales around 400 peo...sistant to one or more drugs and one per cent show multidrug resistance. Left untreated, a person with infectious TB of the lungs infects around 10 to 15 people ...

Protein Discovery Could Unlock The Secret To Better TB Treatment

...igning drugs which enable treatment of dormant and multidrug resistant TB. In England and Wales around 400 peo...sistant to one or more drugs and one per cent show multidrug resistance. Left untreated, a person with infectious TB of the lungs infects around 10 to 15 people ...

New polysaccharide may help combat multidrug resistance in cancer

...al and inert role in cells is actually involved in multidrug resistance in cancer. Using antagonists for this m... hyaluronan increases the cellular production of a multidrug transporter protein by binding to CD44. They discovered that antagonist molecules that bind to hyalu...

Two studies document rise of superbugs in the environment

...eria weren't bad enough, some bacteria have become multidrug resistant (MDR). Researchers at the Beth Israel De...ions--were involved in the upswing. The spread of multidrug resistance in bacteria appears to have two main causes, according to Aurora Pop-Vicas, MD, lead auth...

Drug resistance may travel same path as quorum sensing

...doctors and their patients. This process, known as multidrug resistance, results in the failure to cure the bacterial disease. Even worse, the resistance is not just to one drug, but many because the pump is now increased and many different drugs will be pumped out. "It compounds the problem," said Zechiedri...

Pollution threatens coral health by preventing lesions from healing, UCF study shows

...s. At three offshore sites, elevated levels of a multidrug resistance protein were found. That helps the coral defend itself against contaminants, but it is metabolically costly for coral to produce, leaving less energy available to repair damaged tissue. Fauth's team is sharing data with Professor Michael...

New study reveals structure of E. coli multidrug transporter protein

... researchers find new ways to avoid the problem of multidrug resistance and enhance the potency of existing dru...c molecules-and similar to the interior of another multidrug transporter, EmrE, which Chang and his colleagues uncovered in a study that was published last year ...

Will the plague pathogen become resistant to antibiotics?

... Genetic ability to disable antibiotics, including multidrug resistance (MDR) sequences, is carried on plasmids...one is revealed a mechanism for the acquisition of multidrug resistance in Y. pestis. Obviously, this is an event that might have serious human health consequenc...

Gallium: A new antibacterial agent?

...e in vitro growth of Pseudomonas aeruginonsa; even multidrug resistant strains of P. aeruginonsa isolated from individuals with cystic fibrosis. Ga also prevented P. aeruginonsa forming biofilms, the multi-cellular bacterial communities responsible for chronic bacterial infections, and killed both free-living ...

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