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Edit The Scientist 01 May 2016
... analytic procedures for detecting microbial pathogens....

Nanoscale Defenses

Edit The Scientist 01 May 2016
But with the recent rise in antibiotic-resistant pathogens, this standard is no longer sustainable ... Preliminary in vitro studies have demonstrated that a diverse array of nanotechnologies are effective against some of today’s most dangerous pathogens, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), and Klebsiella pneumoniae....

Becoming Acculturated

Edit The Scientist 01 May 2016
If you take a sample of seawater and plate it on a typical petri dish, colonies of bacteria will flourish. Each of those colonies springs from a single cell; counting those colonies provides an estimate of the number and variety of organisms in the water sample ... But that label isn’t quite right, says J ... MICROBE ... J ... Intracellular pathogens tend to evolve to fill their needs efficiently by coopting resources from the host environment....

FDA report

Edit The Times Picayune 30 Apr 2016
Dole said the Justice Department was investigating ... Food companies that find listeria during periodic testing are not required to run further tests to determine whether the pathogen is of a toxic variety ... Dole initiated a recall a week later ... They put the genetic fingerprints of the listeria obtained from victims into pathogen databases and found a close match in a bagged salad that Ohio inspectors had randomly collected and tested ... ....

Hong Kong TV debuts: Containment, for die-hard zombie fans; season six of Game of Thrones has landed, as if you didn't know

Edit South China Morning Post 30 Apr 2016
Poor old Atlanta gets hammered again in Containment (second episode tomorrow, Fox, at 9pm) ... The first episode introduced us to the apparent victim zero, a Middle-Eastern refugee, and the fact he appears to have brought a vial of pathogen with him in his hand luggage only heightens the need for a wall to be built around Atlanta, at Atlanta's cost! No, hang on … I'm getting confused ... So far, so pedestrian ... Based on George R.R....

How We Are Destroying Our Immune Systems, Causing Autoimmune Diseases By Decimating Evolved Gut Microbiomes

Edit Inquisitr 30 Apr 2016
Hygiene hypothesis is a highly supported idea that claims that early exposure to pathogens is crucial to the development of the human immune system, and that our modern, over-sterilized, over-medicated lifestyles are directly contributing to the abundance of autoimmune diseases and allergies ... Hygiene hypothesis is one of the strongest-supported theories for how we got here. Erika von Mutius studied asthma in the 1980s in Munich ... E....

‘War of the plants’ being studied by AgriLife Research scientists (Texas A&M; AgriLife)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Apr 2016
Two Texas A&M; AgriLife Research scientists are studying the virtual tug-of-war that takes place when a pathogen attacks a plant. In mid-battle, both aggressor, the pathogen, and the defending plant undergo dynamic changes to improve their chances of victory ... 'Developing grasses better able to defend themselves against viruses and other pathogens would mean grasses with increased and higher-quality yields,' she said....

04/29/16 - Salmonella in Retail Poultry Lowest Since FDA Began Testing; Positive Trends in Antimicrobial Resistance Continue (National Chicken Council)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Apr 2016
All Salmonella from retail meats were susceptible to azithromycin, another important antibiotic recommended for the treatment of Salmonella and other intestinal pathogens ... 'Reports like this provide a strong case that the continued judicious use of antibiotics by poultry producers, coupled with ongoing strategies to reduce Salmonella, are aiding in the reduction of the pathogen and the reduction in resistance....

Meet The Tiniest Crop Duster

Edit Popular Science 29 Apr 2016
A new strategy to keep plant pathogens at bay ....

‘Hospital Hotel’ Employees Announce State Safety Complaint on Workers’ Memorial Day (Unite Here)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Apr 2016
(Source. Unite Here) ... Due to the number of hotel guests whose stays are related to medical treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center across the street, employees at the Sofitel Los Angeles fear they have higher-than-typical risks of occupational exposure to blood-borne pathogens ... Workers fear they are at risk of contracting hepatitis B or other blood-borne pathogens because they do not have proper equipment or adequate training ... (noodl....

News and press releases: New medicine to help in the fight against antimicrobial resistance (EMA - European Medicines Agency)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Apr 2016
(Source. EMA - European Medicines Agency). 29/04/2016 ... By inhibiting the action of these enzymes, avibactam restores the activity of ceftazidime against ceftazidime-resistant pathogens ... This is in line with EMA's guidance from November 2013 that allows for a flexible approach in the development of new antibiotics for human use, targeting multi-drug resistant pathogens in areas where treatments are needed ... Notes. ... Original Document ... (noodl....

Haiti had Zika months before Brazil’s 2015 outbreak

Edit The Miami Herald 29 Apr 2016
Haiti health officials and experts from the U.S ... J. Glenn Morris, Jr., a professor of medicine and the director of the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute, which runs a lab in Haiti, said about the June 2014 rumors sweeping Haiti ... Interactive feature....

To Fight Zika, Let’s Genetically Modify Mosquitoes

Edit The New Republic 29 Apr 2016
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes bite people across the globe, spreading three viral diseases. dengue, chikungunya and Zika ... We can accomplish the goal of producing mosquitoes incapable of transmitting human pathogens using the same kinds of selective breeding techniques people have been using for centuries on other animals and plants.Techniques on the table ... ....
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