Antibiotic Resistant Bacterium Uses Sonar-like Strategy to “See?Enemies or Prey
For the first time, scientists have foundthat bacteria can use a Sonar-like system to spot other cells (eithernormal body cells or other bacteria) and target them for destruction.Reported in the December 24 issue of Science, this finding explains howsome bacteria know when to produce a toxin that makes infection moresevere. It may lead to the design of new toxin inhibitors. “Blocking orinte...Highly adaptable genome in gut bacterium key to intestinal health
A bacterium that lives in the human gut adaptively shifts more than a quarter of its genes into high gear when its host's diet changes from sugar to complex carbohydrates. This adaptive mechanism not only allows the bacterial species to survive rapidly changing nutrient conditions but also helps maintain the functions and stability of the gut's highly complex microbial society, according...Harmful Bacterium Commonly Found in Poultry May Survive Refrigeration and Frozen Storage Combined
Glia appear essential for 'hair cells'responsible for hearing and balance. Traditionally viewed as supportingactors, cells known as glia may be essential for the normal developmentof nerve cells responsible for hearing and balance, according to newUniversity of Utah research. The study is reported in the January 6,2005 issue of Neuron and is co-authored by scientists at the Universityof Was...Sequencing of marine bacterium will help study of cell communication
The opportunity to annotate the genome of the glow-in-the-dark bacterium, Vibrio fischeri, which lives in symbiotic harmony within the light organ of the bobtail squid, has helped a Virginia Tech microbiologist advance her research on quorum sensing, or how cells communicate and function as a community. Researchers studying the newly sequenced genome of the marine bacterium V. fischeri, d...Researchers identify protein crucial for survival of Lyme-disease bacterium
When the tick-borne bacterium that causes Lyme disease lacks a specific protein that responds to an incoming meal of blood, it is unable to be transmitted from the tick to a new animal host, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. The findings suggest that the protein, called BptA, is essential for the bacterium Borrelia burgdorfei (Bb) to survive in the gut of its tick h...Freund's Complete Adjuvant, Modified, Mycobacterium butyricum from Calbiochem
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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 in China, the infected pigs are thought to have come from up to 300 different farms, which were then...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 notable that the microorganism is associated with chronic inflammation and heart disease....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 also responsible for causing Toxic shock syndrome, rheumatic fever, septicemia and necrotizing faciitis...Compound From Cyanobacterium Can Fight Alzheimer’
Alzheimer's and other types of neurodegenerative diseases can be countered by a compound which is derived from cyanobacterium, a type of blue-green algae known as Nostoc // . This has been revealed by researchers from Switzerland. According to the study, published in the recent issue of issue of the Journal of Natural Products, it is believed to be the first time that a potent agent a...Bacterium Overtook Patients At Brisbane Women’s Hospita
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH), Sydney struggles with an outbreak of antibiotic-resistant bacterium where nearly 19 patients// in three wards were found with a bacterium called carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) on their skin. To prevent the spread, 12 patients from burns unit (people with 40 or 50 per cent burns) were shifted to Sydney hospital and some t...Antimicrobial Susceptibility-AFB/Mycobacterium tuberculosis Primary Panel
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