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• in Travel
  Top 5 Riskiest Health Encounters on Airlines
  The top 5 most health risk encounters on passenger airlines that many people don’t consider. Often an aircraft is cleaner than public rests rooms when often they are the same.
  by wellnesssultana / on Jan 23, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  Microbes Galore Lurking at the Gas Station
  A new report found that gas pumps are teeming with illness-causing bacteria and viruses.
  by jenna3967 / on Oct 25, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  Common Infection Increases Risk of Transmitting HIV
  A common gynecologic infection can increase a woman's risk of transmitting HIV.
  by jenna3967 / on Jul 18, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “bacteria”

 

• How Bacteria Behind Serious Childhood Disease Evolve To Evade Vaccines

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  Genetics has provided surprising insights into why vaccines used in both the UK and US to combat serious childhood infections can eventually fail. The study, published in Nature Genetics, which investigates how bacteria change their disguise to evade the vaccines, has implications for how future vaccines can be made ...
  21 hours ago

• Stealthy Leprosy Pathogen Evades Critical Vitamin D-Dependent Immune Response

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  A team of UCLA scientists has found that the pathogen that causes leprosy has a remarkable ability to avoid the human immune system by inhibiting the antimicrobial responses important to our defenses. In one of the first laboratory studies of its kind, researchers discovered that the leprosy pathogen Mycobacterium ...
  21 hours ago

• How New Viruses Evolve, And In Some Cases, Become Deadly

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  Researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) have demonstrated how a new virus evolves, shedding light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutations. The findings appear in the journal Science. The scientists showed for the first time how the virus called "Lambda" evolved to find a new way to attack ...
  22 hours ago

• PLoS Pathogens: The Circadian Clock Protein Timeless Regulates Phagocytosis of Bacteria in Drosophila

  
  Polygenicblog — Authority: 123
  Survival of bacterial infection is the result of complex host-pathogen interactions. An often-overlooked aspect of these interactions is the circadian state of the host. Previously, we demonstrated that Drosophila mutants lacking the circadian regulatory proteins Timeless (Tim) and Period (Per) are sensitive to ...
  2 days ago

• How viruses con bugs into working for them

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Washington, Jan 27 (IANS) Some of the viruses are real con artists. They trick new bugs with genetic material filched from their previous bacterial hosts into working for them, reveals a study.The con occurs when a grifter virus injects its DNA into a bacterium living in a phosphorus-starved region of the ocean. ...
  3 days ago

• Indicators Of Peptic Ulcer

  
  HandRooster — Authority: 134
  The condition often called Duodenal Ulcer is a bed that typically announces itself for a sharp, severe pain while in the upper organ of the abdomen (the Epigastrium), appearing when you, yourself are hungry and also the stomach is actually empty. Pet health-related is compromised if your first layer for the cornea is ...
  4 days ago

• Better Treatment And Fewer Costs With New Detection Method For UTI-Causing Bacteria

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  A new method for identifying bacteria that cause urinary tract infections (UTIs) will lead to much faster, more effective treatment as well as a reduction in costs. The procedure, described in the Journal of Medical Microbiology, could eventually be used for the identification of micro-organisms in other bodily ...
  4 days ago

• Extracellular Matrix Identified As Source Of Spreading In Biofilms

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  New research at Harvard explains how bacterial biofilms expand to form slimy mats on teeth, pipes, surgical instruments, and crops. Through experiment and mathematical analysis, researchers have shown that the extracellular matrix (ECM), a mesh of proteins and sugars that can form outside bacterial cells, creates ...
  5 days ago

• Medical Detectives Tracking Anthrax Cases

  
  beannachd — Authority: 94
  Rare disease hits two at Florida newspaper; FBI enters investigation One place of business, two men exposed to an extremely rare strain of anthrax. Do those numbers add up to terrorism? The world of medical science may only be able to provide part of the answer. The disease itself doesn’t leave a telephone card ...
  6 days ago

• PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT-THE MICROBIAL WAY

  
  Healinfo — Authority: 89
  We Know that our body, especially intestine carries many colonies of different micro organisms. But have you ever thought these parasites can change or shape our personality. Yes, it is a real fact. The chemical substances produced by these micro organisms can alter or change functioning of body organs. Some toxins or ...
  1 week ago

• Lego League Team Advances to State Tournament

  
  TippNews DAILY — Authority: 111
  Back Row: Ian Stewart, Michael Pfister, Bryce McCullough, Alyssa Stewart, Colin Achterberg Front Row: Logan Oskey The Bacteria Busters, Tipp City’s 2011 Lego robotics team, will be advancing to the state tournament for their second straight consecutive year. This year, the teams were required to build, test, ...
  1 week ago

• Shortages Of Anti-Infective Drugs Pose Threat To Public Health And Patient Care

  
  Health News and Views — Authority: 140
  Shortages of key drugs used to fight infections represent a public health emergency and can put patients at risk, according to a review published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and available online*…
  1 week ago

• Bath Salts

  
  Smoat — Authority: 143
  Dangerous trips from deadly designer drugs – Medford Mail Tribune Dr. James F. Hammel says there are plenty of ways to party, but smoking, snorting or shooting “bath salts” shouldn’t be one of them. “I’m not advocating any sort of drug use, but there are gateway drugs like marijuana that we at least ...
  1 week ago

• What Is Diverticulitis

  
  Lose Weight, Not Hope — Authority: 126
  Our digestive tract acts as a source for digestion and a place exactly where foods are extracted of their nutrients and spread throughout the body with brilliant efficiency. The digestive tract consists of big and little intestine comprising of several of types of bowel chemical substances, digestive bacteria’s and ...
  1 week ago

• Teardrop protein has jaws to chew up harmful bacteria

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Washington, Jan 20 (IANS) Lysozymes, antiseptic proteins in our teardrops, have jaws that latch on and chomp through rows of cell walls of harmful bugs like someone hungrily devouring an ear of corn.“Those jaws chew apart the walls of the bacteria that are trying to get into your eyes and infect them,” said [...]
  1 week ago

• Mucus Baffles Ulcer-Causing Bacteria

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  Even the tiniest microscopic organisms make waves when they swim. In fact, dealing with these waves is a fact of life for the ulcer-causing bacteria H. pylori. The bacteria are known to change their behavior in order to compensate for the waves created by other bacteria swimming around in the same aquatic ...
  1 week ago

• Les applications gratuites et en promotion sur iPad – 20 janvier 2012

  
  iPadou — Authority: 121
  Promotions et  applications gratuites, voici les  applications qu’il ne faut pas manquer ce 20 janvier, sur iPad. Un nouvel arrivage qui vous permettra de jouer des heures sur votre iPad, de protéger vos mots de passe ou de vous prendre pour un réalisateur au cinéma. Voilà comme tous les jours votre ...
  1 week ago

• How disease-fighting proteins in teardrops annihilate harmful bacteria

  
  Blogburger — Authority: 138
  Washington, Jan 20 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have tried to discover how exactly a disease-fighting protein in teardrops destroys dangerous bacteria. The researchers from UCI believe that the research could prove critical to long-term work aimed at diagnosing cancers and other illnesses in their very early… ...
  1 week ago

• Genetic Code Cracked For A Devastating Blood Parasite

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  Scientists have cracked the genetic code and predicted some high priority drug targets for the blood parasite Schistosoma haematobium, which is linked to bladder cancer and HIV/ AIDS and causes the insidious urogenital disease schistosomiasis haematobia in more than 112 million people in Africa. Schistomiasis is ...
  1 week ago

• Important Role In Acute, Chronic Urinary Tract Infections May Be Played By Bacterial Toxin

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  Researchers from the University of Utah have identified a process by which the most common types of urinary tract infection-causing bacteria are able to trigger bladder cell shedding and disable immune responses. According to this new study, published in Cell Host & Microbe, α-hemolysin, a toxin secreted by ...
  1 week ago

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