New strategy may curtail spread of antibiotic resistance
Study identifies key step in spread of drug resistance, opportunity for intervention Spotless surfaces in hospitals can hide bacteria that ...
Tag: Bacteriology
Respiratory microbiome may influence your susceptibility to flu
Microbiome community linked to lower influenza susceptibilityCredit: Lee et al, 2019. Specific respiratory microbiome communities may be linked to influenza ...
Beech trees are dying, and nobody's sure why
Intense effort underway to find culprit behind rapid disease spreadCredit: Forest Pathology, Ohio State COLUMBUS, Ohio - A confounding new ...
Metabolite from pomegranate diet reduces inflammatory bowel diseases
inStem and University of Louisville research teams identify Urolithin A and its synthetic analog to improve gut barrier and reduce ...
UTSA microbiologist Floyd Wormley elected AAAS Fellow
Credit: UTSA (San Antonio, Jan. 09, 2019) -- Floyd L. Wormley Jr., the Microsoft President's Endowed Professor in the UTSA ...
Obesity surgery leads to emergence of new microbial strains in the human fecal community
A novel informatics technique allows researchers to identify different strains of the same bacterial species.Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Using ...
Researchers study bacterial immunity to understand infectious disease
Patients with cystic fibrosis are often infected by pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that infects the lungs and prevents breathing, often ...
RCSI researchers develop new tuberculosis treatment
Newly developed medicine could be used to treat hundreds of thousands of patients with tuberculosisCredit: Maxwell Photography Tuesday, 8 January ...
How common pain relievers may promote Clostridium difficile infections
Washington, DC - January 8, 2019 - Clostridium difficile causes the most common and most dangerous hospital-born infections in the ...
A little squid sheds light on evolution with bacteria
Bacteria, which are vital for the health of all animals, also played a major role in the evolution of animals ...
Metabolic syndrome patients need more vitamin C to break cycle of antioxidant depletion
CORVALLIS, Ore. - A higher intake of vitamin C is crucial for metabolic syndrome patients trying to halt a potentially ...
Natural-based antibiofilm and antimicrobial peptides from microorganisms
This article by Dr. Serkan Ortucu et al. is published in Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 2018. New developments in ...
Is very low LDL-C harmful?
This article by Dr. Charles Faselis et al. is published in Current Pharmaceutical Design, Volume 24 , Issue 31 , ...
Lipo-protein apheresis and PCSK9-inhibitors
This article by Dr. Claudia Stefanutti et al. is published in Current Pharmaceutical Design, Volume 24 , Issue 31 , ...
Unmuting large silent genes lets bacteria produce new molecules, potential drug candidates
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- By enticing away the repressors dampening unexpressed, silent genes in Streptomyces ...
ERC Consolidator Grant for research on relationship between beetles and symbiotic bacteria
Martin Kaltenpoth of Mainz University will investigate symbiont-assisted cuticle biosynthesis as a crucial mechanism that may have contributed to the ...
Multicenter trial supports use of topical antibiotics in NICU babies
Researchers tested the effectiveness of a topical antibiotic in eliminating Staphylococcus aureus colonization in hospitalized infants BALTIMORE, MD, Dec. 26, ...
Leprosy declines in Morocco after implementation of preventive drug
Credit: Mary Gillham Archive Project, Flickr, CC BY 2.0, 2017 Since 2012, the number of cases of leprosy in Morocco ...
Yale-led team examines impact of diet intervention on autoimmunity in mice
New Haven, Conn. -- Could a change in diet be beneficial to people with autoimmune diseases such as lupus? A ...
Bacteria rely on classic business model
The pneumonia causing pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa has developed a twin-track strategy to colonize its hostCredit: Image: University of Basel, Biozentrum ...