Legionnaires' disease (LD), a rare and severe type of pneumonia, is a respiratory infection caused by species of Legionella bacteria. One of the most accurate ways to diagnose LD is to perform culture on samples from a patient's ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 21, 2024
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A strain of E. coli bacteria called enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) is known to cause several gastrointestinal disorders, which include bloody diarrhea and abdominal cramps, by damaging the intestinal lining. When accompanied ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 3, 2022
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Disease-causing bacteria like Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica could survive sanitization in beef processing facilities. Scientists and collaborators in the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA), ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 3, 2021
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When vegetable farmers harvest crops, they often rely on postharvest washing to reduce any foodborne pathogens, but a new University of Georgia study shows promise in reducing these pathogens—as well as lowering labor costs— ...
Other
Sep 9, 2020
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Medications were once discovered by finding active ingredients in traditional remedies or by serendipitous discovery. A relatively new approach is to understand how disease and infection are controlled at the molecular level, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 28, 2020
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Min Dong, Ph.D., and his lab are world experts in toxins and how to combat them. They've figured out how Clostridium difficile's most potent toxin gets into cells and zeroed in on the first new botulinum toxin identified ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 10, 2018
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Finding a fast and inexpensive way to detect specific strains of bacteria and viruses is critical to food safety, water quality, environmental protection and human health. However, current methods for detecting illness-causing ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 5, 2018
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E. coli outbreaks hospitalize people and cause food recalls pretty much annually in the United States. This year is no different.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 24, 2018
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Your body teems with them—100 trillion microbes in your gut, lungs, mouth, and skin. Your home swarms with them—in toilets and sinks, on tables and chairs, in the carpet, and on your dog. Even the ground on which you ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 10, 2017
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The bacteria that cause the shigella intestinal disease use a toxin that exploits a physical force in the membrane of cells. Though difficult to block, it is possible to fight with nanoparticles exploiting the same force.
Bio & Medicine
Dec 22, 2016
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