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UrduPregnancy and Anti-Infective Agents is a concise clinical reference that facilitates health consultants and professionals for determining treatment options for some common prenatal and postpartum infections during pregnancy and the puerperium in patients. Key Features Presents 9 organized, easy to…
Tag: BACTERIOLOGY
Scientists turned toxic pesticide into treatment against antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Russian scientists from Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg have synthesized nitrogen-containing cyclic compounds that differ only in the relative position of side substituents.
Groups of bacteria can work together to better protect crops and improve their growth
Certain bacteria, known as plant-growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB), can improve plant health or protect them from pathogens and are used commercially to help crops. To further improve agricultural yields, it is helpful to identify factors that can improve PGPB behavior. Many…
Delicious and disease-free: scientists attempting new citrus varieties
$4.67 million helps put new fruits to the test
AI-designed serotonin sensor may help scientists study sleep and mental health
NIH BRAIN Initiative scientists used machine learning to redesign a bacterial ‘Venus flytrap’ protein that can monitor brain serotonin levels in real time
With COVID exacerbating superbug threat, researchers ID new weapon
Study identifies novel compound in fight against antibiotic resistance
Light flips genetic switch in bacteria inside transparent worms
Light-controlled genes could reveal how gut bacteria impact health
Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance could be more challenging outside of the EU
Surveillance of AMR in Ireland is likely to be co-ordinated by the European Union, but the UK will need to develop it’s own strategy.
Evolution of a killer: How African Salmonella made the leap from gut to bloodstream
University of Liverpool scientists have exploited the combined power of genomics and epidemiology to understand how a type of Salmonella bacteria evolved to kill hundreds of thousands of immunocompromised people in Africa. Bloodstream infections caused by a drug-resistant type of…
Three-dimensionally reconstituted organoids that are just like human organs
Organoids are organ-like tissues derived from stem cells that are grown in labs, often referred to as miniature organs. Because they can imitate the structure and function of human organs, it is considered as the next-generation technology for creating artificial…
Blood pressure drug may be key to increasing lifespan, new study shows
Metolazone, a drug used to treat hypertension, activates a mitochondrial stress response that prolongs lifespan in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans
Covid-19: contaminated surfaces as a risk factor
Paderborn University study investigates transmission mechanisms
Optogenetic method can reveal how gut microbes affect longevity
Research has shown that gut microbes can influence several aspects of the host’s life, including aging. Given the complexity and heterogeneity of the human gut environment, elucidating how a specific microbial species contributes to longevity has been challenging. To explore…
Root bacteria could help defeat fatal citrus disease
$10 million project hunts underground for keys to trees’ health
New salmonella proteins discovered
Salmonella are bacteria that can cause food poisoning with severe diarrhoea. If they penetrate from the intestine into the blood system, this can lead to sepsis, life-threatening inflammatory reactions in the entire organism. Since salmonellae are also becoming increasingly resistant…
Maternal diet during lactation shapes functional abilities of milk bacteria
Research has shown that human milk is the optimal nutrition source for neonates and infants. It confers protection against both immediately life-threatening infant diseases such as necrotizing enterocolitis, as well as later onset diseases in adults, like obesity, diabetes and…
Salt-tolerant bacteria with an appetite for sludge make biodegradable plastics
Using a bacterial strain found in mangroves, Texas A&M researchers have uncovered a low-cost, sustainable method for producing bioplastics from sewage sludge and wastewater
Newly discovered toxin-antitoxin system abundant in one-cell organisms
Bacteria are always hungry, according to Thomas Wood, Biotechnology Endowed Chair and professor of chemical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering. If you gave a single bacterium all the food it wanted, it would obtain the mass of…
Using water fleas, UTA researchers investigate adaptive evolution
Through preserved eggs, UTA team studies how species respond to invasive predator
Cataloging nature’s hidden arsenal: Viruses that infect bacteria
A new genetic approach can accelerate the study of phage-microbe interactions with implications for health, agriculture, and climate
$6.3 million will help UC Riverside save America’s avocado orchards
Incurable fungus, root rot and salinity threaten fruit production
Microbes and plants: A dynamic duo
Drought stress has been a major roadblock in crop success, and this obstacle will not disappear anytime soon. Luckily, a dynamic duo like Batman and Robin, certain root-associated microbes and the plants they inhabit, are here to help. Plants and…
When strains of E.coli play rock-paper-scissors, it’s not the strongest that survives
New research from UC San Diego reveals hidden dynamics of bacteria colonies
Bacterial nanopores open the future of data storage
In 2020, each person in the world is producing about 1.7 megabytes of data every second. In just a single year, that amounts to 418 zettabytes – or 418 billion one-terabyte hard drives. We currently store data as 1s and…
Science paper links root endodermis and microbiota in mineral balance
Valéria Custódio, ITQB NOVA PhD Student and GREEN-IT member, is a co-author of the paper, which offers new insight on the importance of the relationship between microbiota and root endodermis.
UBCO researchers suggest stool transplants can battle serious infections
Genetic analysis helps ensure successful fecal microbiota transplants
Ability to predict C-diff mortality nearly doubled with new guidelines
University of Houston team assesses change to severity definitions
Magnetic bacteria as micropumps
Cancer drugs have side effects, so for many years, scientists have been exploring ways to transport the active substances to a tumour in the body as precisely as possible. That is the only place that drugs should take effect. One…
Quick and sensitive identification of multidrug-resistant germs
Researchers from the University of Basel have developed a sensitive testing system that allows the rapid and reliable detection of resistance in bacteria. The system is based on tiny, functionalized cantilevers that bend due to binding of sample material. In…
Gut microbiome snapshot could reveal chemical exposures in children
Study of how semi-volatile organic compounds affect bacteria and fungi reveals new relationships and bacteria used for bioremediation in children’s guts
Leaf microbiomes are a neighborhood affair in northern forests
A study published in Ecological Monographs shows that sugar maple microbiomes change from north to south along the transition from coniferous to deciduous forest
Researchers identify the bacteria that can make the Bolson tortoise become ill
The Bolson tortoise ( Bolson Gopherus flavomarginatus ) is the largest land reptile in North America. It lives mainly in dry areas, in particular, in the Chihuahua desert in northern Mexico. In recent decades, its numbers have fallen by 50%,…
Plant-inspired alkaloids protect rice, kiwi and citrus from harmful bacteria
Plants get bacterial infections, just as humans do. When food crops and trees are infected, their yield and quality can suffer. Although some compounds have been developed to protect plants, few of them work on a wide variety of crops,…
Cell membranes in super resolution
Expansion microscopy (ExM) enables the imaging of cells and their components with a spatial resolution far below 200 nanometres. For this purpose, the proteins of the sample under investigation are cross-linked into a swellable polymer. Once the interactions between the…
‘Anti-antibiotic’ allows for use of antibiotics without driving resistance
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An inexpensive, FDA-approved drug — cholestyramine — taken in conjunction with an antibiotic prevents the antibiotic from driving antimicrobial resistance, according to new research by scientists at Penn State and the University of Michigan. The team’s…
SMART researchers develop customised targeting of bacteria using lysins
The discovery can help cure bacterial infections without inducing resistance or causing harm to good bacteria
Study Reveals Connection Between Gut Bacteria and Vitamin D Levels
UC San Diego researchers discovered that the makeup of a person’s gut microbiome is linked to their levels of active vitamin D, and revealed a new understanding of vitamin D and how it’s typically measured.
Potential treatment against antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing gonorrhea and meningitis
A Canadian team from INRS has demonstrated the effectiveness of an inexpensive molecule to fight antibiotic-resistant strains of the bacteria responsible for gonorrhea and meningococcal meningitis
Experimental evolution reveals how bacteria gain drug resistance
A research team at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has succeeded in experimentally evolving the common bacteria Escherichia coli under pressure from a large number of individual antibiotics. In doing so, they were able to…
Antimicrobial Soap Additive Worsens Fatty Liver Disease in Mice
Triclosan, an antimicrobial found in many soaps and other household items, worsens fatty liver disease in mice fed a high-fat diet.
Nature’s toolkit for killing viruses and bacteria
Engineers reveal how zinc oxide nanoneedles and droplet hydrodynamics can stop pathogens
Social bacteria build shelters using the physics of fingerprints
The rod-shaped microbes cooperate to construct structures called fruiting bodies when famine strikes; a new study explores the first steps in this process
How moving slower allows groups of bacteria to spread across surfaces
Similar to the fable of the tortoise and the hare, scientists found that bacteria engineered to individually move faster actually lose the race against slower strains when traveling in densely packed groups Experiments and mathematical models revealed that the fast…
University of Guam works to stop ironwood tree decline
With U.S. Department of Agriculture grants totaling almost $370,000, researchers from the University of Guam and other institutions are in the process of analyzing termites to assess their role in infecting what is now more than 20 percent of Guam’s…
Vibrations of coronavirus proteins may play a role in infection
Study suggests mechanical properties of spike proteins can predict infectivity and lethality of different coronaviruses
Giant aquatic bacterium is a master of adaptation
The largest freshwater bacterium, Achromatium oxaliferum, is highly flexible in its requirements, as researchers led by the IGB have now discovered: It lives in places that differ extremely in environmental conditions such as hot springs and ice water. The bacterial…
Bed dust microorganisms may boost children’s health
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have found a link between microorganisms living in the dust of children’s beds and the children’s own bacteria. The correlation suggests that microorganisms may reduce a child’s risk of asthma and allergy
Coinfection: more than the sum of its parts
Organ and stem cell transplants are proven and frequently used methods in everyday modern clinical practice. However, even when performed regularly in specialized centers, some patients still experience a number of serious complications afterwards. Among other things, infections with fungi…
Antiviral defense from the gut
Study in mice demonstrates how gut bacteria help ward off viruses to make animals resistant to infection
Gut microbiome manipulation could result from virus discovery
Rutgers co-authored research could aid efforts to engineer beneficial bacteria