Topic: Bacteria
Scientists have made a major breakthrough that could lead to a vaccine against the deadly tropical disease melioidosis, which infects millions of people, a study published on Thursday said.The findings in the journal Science and show how a toxin produced by the ...
Plague germs teased from mediaeval cadavers in a London cemetery have shed light on why the bacterium that unleashed the Black Death was so lethal and spawned later waves of epidemics.The DNA of Yersinia pestis shows, in evolutionary terms, a highly successful ...
The emergence of bacteria resistant to antibiotics and efforts by scientists trying to cope with the problem top the agenda at a medical convention under way here this weekend."The emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria worldwide is clearly the hot topic because one can ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Gut bacteria -- colonies of bacteria that live in the human digestive tract -- appear to have fairly picky dining habits, with one type preferring high-fat, fast-food fare, and another preferring a high-fiber feast, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.Researchers ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A natural defense mechanism used by cells in the gut to neutralize harmful toxins may lead to new ways to fight Clostridium difficile, the most common cause of hospital-acquired bacterial infections, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.Tests of an experimental ...
MIAMI (Reuters) - A human fecal bacterium kills coral, new research shows, and U.S. scientists say this is a warning to Florida and the Caribbean to protect prized reefs from sewage or face a threat to a key pillar of their tourism.In ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Researchers in Singapore have re-engineered a harmless strain of bacteria to fight another common, drug-resistant microbe that spreads in hospitals and is deadly to patients with weak immune systems.To fight the Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium, the scientists used a ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Researchers in Minnesota have discovered a new bacterium carried by deer ticks that has caused flu-like symptoms in at least 25 people in Minnesota and Wisconsin.The bacterium, which is yet unnamed, is part of the Ehrlichia genus. Other species ...
An E.coli outbreak in Germany that killed more than 50 people this year has ended, health authorities said Tuesday.The Robert Koch Institute, Germany's national disease control centre, said that the last new case of enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) was recorded three weeks ...
On a Saturday in July, some 20 men and women stood behind pots and jars of homemade yoghurt at Tran's pensioners' club, feverishly awaiting the jury's pronouncement on their concoctions.Every year in mid-July, the small town of Tran, huddled at the foot ...
