Leaf-Cutter Ants Lend A Hand In Biofuel Research
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online As gardeners around the United States tend to their flowers or herbs, leaf-cutter ants are actively cultivating gardens of fungus and bacteria as a source of food and shelter. According...
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Staph Infection Secrets created by Hubert Walinski is a new book that provides people with an effective staph infection treatment and detailed instructions on how to eradicate staph infections without using antibiotics. A full Staph Infection Secrets review on the site Health Review Center indicates if the book is worth buying. Seattle, Wa (PRWEB) June 18, 2013 Staph Infection Secrets created by Hubert Walinski is a new book that provides people with an effective staph infection...
Fat Loss Expert reveals in new video how probiotics and healthy bacteria in the gut provide many benefits to the overall health of the body. The video also recommends a free gut cleansing foods detox book that is available for download. Boston, MA (PRWEB) June 18, 2013 An intestinal imbalance can cause over 170 different diseases and health-related issues, and by following the advice from Fatlossexpert.org, a healthy balance of good bacteria can be restored. This excellent new video that...
Device allows hospitals to safely and confidently disinfect patient environments HOUSTON, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Memphis-based Lumalier, maker of TRU-D SmartUVC(TM), recently delivered its 5-foot-5 germ-killing ultraviolet robot to The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, a recognized leader in innovation and patient care. Short for Total Room Ultraviolet Disinfector, TRU-D is the signature product of Lumalier - the recognized leader in advanced UV germicidal air and...
Dr. Martin N. Gorman, DDS is now using one of the most significant advances in dental medicine - a simple DNA test using saliva to determine the specific type and quantity of disease-causing bacteria in his patients’ mouths. (PRWEB) June 14, 2013 Dr. Martin N, Gorman DDS, is now using one of the most significant advances in dental medicine - a simple DNA test using saliva to determine the specific type and quantity of disease-causing bacteria in his patients’ mouths! According to the...
Patented Technology Shown to Eradicate the Sporeforming Bacteria that Survives Low pH Levels and Pasteurization NEW YORK, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SurePure, Inc. (OTCBB: SURP), a global leader in liquid photopurification, today announced that its patented Turbulator technology has been demonstrated to be effective in containing alicyclobacillus in fruit juice and fruit concentrates. The alicyclobacillus bacteria is a genus of Gram positive, rod-shaped and sporeforming bacteria...
Microbes are living more than 500 feet beneath the seafloor in 5 million-year-old sediment, according to new findings by researchers at the University of Delaware and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Genetic material in mud from the bottom of the ocean — called the deep biosphere —revealed an ecosystem of active bacteria, fungi and other microscopic organisms at depths deeper than a skyscraper is high. The findings were published in Nature on June 12. “This type of...
- "Get in the Game" urges parents to take action and vaccinate against meningococcal disease in advance of the upcoming sports season SILVER SPRINGS, Md. and SWIFTWATER, Pa., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Voices of Meningitis, a public health initiative of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) in collaboration with Sanofi Pasteur, announced today the launch of Get in the Game: Keeping Teens Healthy, a new program to help educate parents on the danger and prevention of...
AGA Urges FDA to Streamline Process to Get Treatment to Patients BETHESDA, Md., June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Generally, drug development in the U.S. is powered by pharmaceutical company laboratories. In an unusual turn of events, a promising new treatment for debilitating recurrent Clostridium difficile infection has developed outside the usual drug-development process, and the treatment isn't a chemical compound, but microbes that live in the human gut. Every year more...
A lawsuit filed against the Holiday Inn Bordeaux in Fayetteville alleges that an Asheville woman contracted Salmonella after eating food at the hotel. She is represented by Seattle-based Marler Clark. FAYETTEVILLE, NC (PRWEB) June 05, 2013 Seattle-based Marler Clark filed a third lawsuit* against the Holiday Inn Bordeaux today. The lawsuit was filed in Cumberland County Superior Court on behalf of Asheville resident Lacey Townsend, who alleges she became ill with a Salmonella infection...
American Chemical Society Using the same devious mechanism that enables some bacteria to shrug off powerful antibiotics, scientists have developed solar-powered nanofilters that remove antibiotics from the water in lakes and rivers twice as efficiently as the best existing technology. Their report appears in ACS’ journal NanoLetters. David Wendell and Vikram Kapoor explain that antibiotics from toilets and other sources find their way into lakes and rivers, with traces appearing in 80...
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Yersinia enterocolitica is a species of gram-negative coccobacillus-shaped bacterium, belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae. Infection from Yersinia enterocolitica causes the zoonotic disease yersiniosis. Most infected animals recover from the disease and become asymptomatic carriers. Acute infections lead to mild self-limiting entero-colitis or terminal ileitis in humans. Symptoms include watery or bloody diarrhea and fever. After oral uptake it replicates in the terminal ileum and...
Vibrio vulnificus is a species of Gram-negative, motile, curved, rod-shaped bacteria of the Vibrio Genus. Hollis et al. first reported it in 1976. It was given the name Beneckea vulnifica by Reichelt et al. in 1976 and in 1979 Vibrio vulnificus by Farmer. V. vulnificus is related to V. cholerae and is present in marine environments such as estuaries, brackish ponds, or coastal areas. It causes an infection often incurred after eating seafood, especially raw or undercooked oysters. It can...
Streptococcus mutans is a Gram-positive cocci, Facultative anaerobic bacterium commonly found in the human oral cavity and is a significant contributor to tooth decay. J Kilian Clarke first described the microbe in 1924. The first colonizers of the tooth surface are mainly Neisseria spp. and streptococci, including S. mutans. The pioneer species changes the local environmental conditions through growth and metabolism thus allowing more fastidious organisms to further colonize after them,...
Staphylococcus epidermidis is one of thirty-three known species belonging to the genus Staphylococcus. It is part of our skin flora and can also be found in the mucous membranes and in animals. It is the most common species found in laboratory test due to contamination. It is not usually pathogenic; however, patients with a compromised immune system often risk infection. Infections can be both nosocomial and community acquired and are more of a threat to hospital patients. Hospitals carry...
Staphylococcus aureus is a facultative anaerobic gram-positive coccus, and is the most common cause of staph infections. It is commonly part of the skin flora found in the nose and on skin. Around 20% of the human population is long-term carriers. It gets its golden color due to its carotenoid pigment staphyloxanthin. The pigment acts as a virulence factor with an antioxidant action that allows the microbe to evade death by reactive oxygen species used by the host immune system. Staphylococci...
