... paying off. Initial studies of patients with psoriasis suggest differences in skin bacterial populations between patients who have the disease and those who do not.
Daniel Frank of the University of ...
... nutrients and storing carbon. "The mixture of bacterial groups in wetland soils can reflect the status of wetland functioning, and the composition of these populations is as telling as their diversity ...
... wetlands -- especially those that had been converted into farm fields -- actually decreases soil bacterial diversity. More than half of original wetland acreage in the U.S. has been destroyed or ...
... Halem and E. Carpino measured salivary bacterial populations of overweight women. Saliva was collected ... body mass index between 27 and 32, and bacterial populations were measured by DNA probe analysis ...
... from the tongue. The tongue bacteria persisted longer on the forearms than foreheads, suggesting some bacterial populations more strongly prefer sebaceous, or oily sites.
"As some others have ...
... in sand relative to open water and found that all feces-derived bacteria were capable of enhanced growth and survival in sand, while in seawater the bacterial populations steadily decreased over time.
... of bacteria were not directly impacted by acidification. However, some rarer types of bacterial populations were significantly or strongly correlated to acidity, rising and falling with fluctuations ...
... to this delocalization.
A competing theory is that a mutagenesis drug may eradicate a virus or bacterial population by reducing the fitness to negative values. The new mathematical results allow ...
... technology lets us check far more 'bacterial ID cards' than the older methods did," said ... within a matter of weeks.
The researchers compared bacterial populations in stool samples provided by three ...
... leads to the development of drug-resistant bacteria. And antibiotics can kill the normal bacterial population of the mouth, urogenital tract, and gastrointestinal tract. This can lead to infections ...
... Medical Center and lead author of the study. "At this time, we don't yet know whether the changes in bacterial populations are triggering GERD or are simply a response to it. But ...
... an ileostomy, the population shifts to a different, but also stable ecosystem.
Neither type of bacterial population seemed to be associated with any particular harm to the patient. However, an ...
