Bacterium in Medical News

Peptic ulcer bacterium alters the body's defense system

Helicobacter pylori survives in the body by manipulating important immune system cells. This is shown in a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The discovery may lead to new treatments against the common peptic ulcer bacterium. About half of the world's...

Third of EMS Stethoscopes Carry MRSA Bacterium

Doctor urges first responders to clean equipment regularly with alcohol wipes FRIDAY, March 27 (HealthDay News) -- One in three stethoscopes used by U.S. emergency medical service providers is contaminated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria, a new study su...

Researchers identify new leprosy bacterium

HOUSTON - A new species of bacterium that causes leprosy has been identified through intensive genetic analysis of a pair of lethal infections, a research team reports in the December issue of the American Journal of Clinical Pathology . All cases of leprosy, an ancient disease that still maim...

Genome of Botulism Bacterium Revealed

The Botulism bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, produces the world's most lethal toxin. Less than 2 kg is enough to wipe off humanity from the face of the earth! Botox , that contains miniscule amounts of the toxin, is used medically. Now, the genome of the organism is exposed. The report in...

New Bacterium Discovered - Related to Cause of Trench Fever

A close cousin of the bacterium that debilitated thousands of World War I soldiers has been isolated at UCSF from a patient who had been on an international vacation. The woman, who has since recovered, suffered from symptoms similar to malaria or typhoid fever, two infections that can occur in re...

Exposure to a Soil Bacterium can Boost Happiness

Exposure to a type of bacteria found in soil boosts happiness levels and could help restore healthy immune functions in people //who are depressed and prone to infection, says a study. British scientists led by Chris Lowry at Bristol University treated lung cancer patients with the bacteria, ...

Exposure to a Soil Bacterium can Boost Happiness

Exposure to a type of bacteria found in soil boosts happiness levels and could help restore healthy immune functions// in people who are depressed and prone to infection, says a study. British scientists led by Chris Lowry at Bristol University treated lung cancer patients with the bacteria, ...

Clues Found On How Deadly Bacterium Gains Foothold

How a potentially deadly bacterium that could be used as a bioterrorist tool eludes being killed by the human immune system is now better understood, University of Iowa// researchers report in the December issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology. This bacterium, Francisella tularensis, is f...

Peptic ulcer bacterium peps up a host of diseases by traversing the blood stream

Researchers from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) in collaboration with European researchers have discovered// the fallout of the highly mobile peptic ulcer bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), in the blood stream. Indeed, a thoroughfare for the bacterium w...

Cell-Wall Carbohydrate in Anthrax Bacterium Holds Promise for New Vaccines

Athens: It was just weeks following the 9/11 attacks in 2001, when the deadly letters made its way into several offices of the news media and two US senators//. The letters contained a virulent strain of anthrax bacteria, which killed five people and infected 17 others. In a bid to ensuring ...

Streptococcus Bacterium Enzyme Identified

Professor Gary Black and his team from Newcastle University have found a triple stranded beta helix shaped enzyme which is responsible for the increased pathogenicity produced by Streptococcus bacterium. // Streptococcus is a gram positive bacterium which is the main cause of sore throat and is als...

Pig Bacterium (Streptococcus suis) Kills 24 In China

The disease is believed to be caused by Streptococcus suis and the first case was reported in June// 2005 in Sichuan province of China. The infected persons were mostly farmers and butchers, who handled infected pigs or people who handled the contaminated pork products. According to investigations ...

Vision Loss in Elderly Caused By Combined Effect of Genes and Bacterium

A definitive link has been established between age-related macular degeneration and the genetic mechanisms underlying the disease process. The finding has been confirmed by the identification of a bacterium //called Chlamydia pneumoniae in the diseased tissue of the affected individuals. It is also...

Bacteria May Be Connected to Colic

... THURSDAY, Aug. 6 (HealthDay News) -- A bacterium normally found in the mouth, skin and intestines m...bies, a new study says. Researchers found the bacterium Klebsiella along with gut inflammation in the in...y uncontrollable crying. "We believe that the bacterium may be sparking an inflammatory reaction, causing ...

Genes key to staph disease severity, drug resistance found hitchhiking together

...e event. One of the ways Staphylococcus bacteria become drug-resistant is through horizontal gene transfer, whereby resistance genes move from one bacterium to another. Staph bacteria also can exchange virulence genes using the same mechanism, but this was previously assumed to occur separately from the tr...

New test for safer biomedical research results

...minations in a high percentage of cell samples. Twenty-two percent of tested cultures were contaminated with one of the various types of the parasitic bacterium called mycoplasma. "What we noticed about the results," says Markus Schmitt, "was that contaminations were frequent in some laboratories, while others...

Higher drug doses needed to defeat tuberculosis, UT Southwestern researchers report

...unds. I haven't met many adults who are at that weight." About one-third of the world's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB, and as many as 2 million people die from the disease each year. TB, which is the leading cause of death among people infected with HIV...

Pinpointing cause of colic: UT Houston researchers identify organism

...organism called Klebsiella , a normally occurring bacterium that can be found in the mouth, skin and intestine...es, half of which had colic, researchers found the bacterium and gut inflammation in the intestines of the babies with colic. "We believe that the bacterium may be sparking an inflammatory reaction, causing ...

Bcl6 gene sculpts helper T cell to boost antibody production

...powerful machines that churn out lots of antibodies. In the adaptive immune system, B cells present an antigen - a distinctive piece of an invading bacterium or virus - to T cells. The bound antigen converts a nave T cell to a helper T cell that secretes cytokines which help the B cells expand and produce a...

Stopping harmful oral bacteria in its path is goal for Case Western Reserve researcher

...ing Han, associate professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, aims to understand how to build roadblocks for a common bacterium that's harmless in a mother's mouth but can turn deadly when it reaches an unborn child. She has received a five-year, $1.85 million grant from the N...

Wyeth's Prevenar 13* Receives First Approval

...ted in 2010. About Pneumococcal Disease Pneumococcal disease is complex and describes a group of illnesses, all caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae . Pneumococcal disease affects both children and adults, and includes invasive infections such as bacteremia/sepsis and men...

Researchers map how staph infections alter immune system

...hogen and opening new doors for improved therapeutic interventions. In recent years, much research has focused on understanding precisely what the bacterium S aureus does within the host to disrupt the immune system. Despite considerable advances, however, it remained unclear how the host's immune system ...

Cepheid Receives FDA Clearance for First On-Demand Molecular Diagnostic Test for Clostridium difficile Infection

...; Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Xpert(R) C. difficile test, an on-demand molecular diagnostic test designed for 45-minute detection of the bacterium that causes Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). The Xpert C. difficile test is the first test for CDI to deliver both rapid turnaround and a hi...

U.S. Unveils Stricter Food-Safety Standards

...tion to help make eggs safer for consumers to eat. The regulation is designed to cut down the number of illnesses caused by eggs contaminated with the bacterium salmonella. The key now is that eggs will have to be refrigerated from farm to market. The FDA said salmonella is a major cause of foodborne illne...

New Weapons in Fight Against TB?

... a prime target in treating the disease. A subsequent lab experiment found that the active ingredient in the two drugs inhibited the M. tuberculosis bacterium without being deadly to its host cells. "We have computational and experimental data to support this [drug] repositioning," principle investigato...

Simple measures may prevent transmission of stomach ulcer bacteria

... The stomach ulcer bacterium Helicobacter pylori is not transmitted through d...is therefore possible to prevent the spread of the bacterium in developing countries through some fairly simple...water in an area in Dhaka in Bangladesh, where the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is very common. The results ...

Dysport Available! New Wrinkle Treatment in Washington, DC Offers Botox Alternative

...t works by relaxing facial muscles, thereby reducing and smoothing away frown-lines and wrinkles. Dysport, like Botox, is a protein extracted from the bacterium Clostridium Botulinum. Dysport has been available in Europe, Asia and South America for over 10 years. Dysport is manufactured by Ipsen Pharmaceutical...

The microbial hydrocarbon diet

...have investigated the activity of enzymes from the bacterium Bacillus cereus DQ01, which can digest the hydrocarbon n-hexadecane. The bacterium was initially isolated from the Daqing oil field i...ons usually involves the application of a cultured bacterium that has been optimized to feed on the specific co...

Finding May Lead to Vaccine for Traveler's Diarrhea

... attach, or bind, to the intestinal epithelia of the host. These fibers, which are needed for ETEC infection to take place in the intestines, exit the bacterium through a pore on the bacterial surface, the researchers explained in a news release from the Boston University School of Medicine. "Atomic resol...

Pediatric Ear Infection Vaccine Shows Promise

...Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, said in a news release. "We have designed several vaccine candidates which target proteins on the outer surface of this bacterium [NTHi]. Previous work in our lab showed that after immunization by injection, each of the three vaccine candidates prevented experimental ear infectio...

AdvanDx Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for GBS PNA FISH(R) for Rapid Detection of Group B Strep from Lim Broths

... the most common cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. Approximately 1 in 4 pregnant women are colonized with Group B Strep and can transmit the bacterium to the newborn during delivery. To prevent the transmission and subsequent infection, women are routinely screened for colonization between 35 and 37...

Closer to an effective treatment for gum disease in smokers

...infects a smokers mouth. The study published recently in the Society for Applied Microbiology journal Environmental Microbiology , showed that the bacterium Porphyromonas gingivalis adapts and changes its DNA and membrane proteins in response to cigarette smoke. Several genes of P. gingivalis assoc...

Thus the bile does not overflow

...s and consequently between the communities" Pieper said. In general, however, the Scientists could identify recurrent dominant colonizers, such as the bacterium Streptococcus anginosus . Interactions and dependencies among the bacteria were gathered by statistical means. "We could show that the colonization o...

BD Extends Decade-Long Support for UNICEF's Campaign to Eliminate Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus

...ated MNT, and many more countries are close to eliminating the disease. About MNT Tetanus is caused by the spores of Clostridium tetani, a bacterium that lives on dead or decaying matter. MNT represents a very high proportion of the total tetanus disease burden due mainly to inadequate immunizatio...

Study reveals current multi-component vaccines may need reworking

...ion in a multi-component vaccine the key peptides that trigger the strongest immune response. The immune system reacts, not to the presence of a whole bacterium or virus, but instead to key fragments of those pathogens. Peptide-based vaccines are already used clinically in cancer, and researchers have mad...

FDA Grants Priority Review Status to Prevnar 13 Marketing Application

...y submissions expected in 2010. Pneumococcal Disease Pneumococcal disease is complex and describes a group of illnesses, all caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae . Pneumococcal disease affects both children and adults, and includes invasive infections such as bacteremia/sepsis and men...

As Earth Warms, Lyme Disease Could Flourish

...urvive, a tick must obtain a blood meal during each stage. If the source of the first meal (mouse, bird or other small animal) is infected with the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, the tick also becomes infected. The tick can then pass the infection to its next meal, which could be wildlife or a human, d...

K-State engineers create DNA sensors that could identify cancer using material only one atom thick

...or the most part the two fields are isolated. If you join these two fields, the possibilities are going to be immense. For example, one can think of a bacterium as a machine with molecular scale components and one can exploit the functioning of those components in a material device." For his doctoral resear...

Cigarette smoke may alter immune response in COPD exacerbations

...cteria. It is the excessive inflammation observed in smokers that is of concern, as it may lead to lung damage." The researchers note that the NTHI bacterium is an obligate human pathogen, and therefore an imperfect fit for a mouse model of COPD. "In the context of this present study, NTHI challenge was use...

Broccoli May Ward Off Serious Stomach Ailments

... which are rich in sulforaphane, resulted in lower levels of H. pylori , a bacterium that is closely associated with the risk of stomach damage and gastric canc... percent because of crowding and poor economic conditions," Fahey said. The bacterium is spread by person-to-person contact. The study included 48 infected pe...