Science news articles about 'plague bacteria'

  • Mimic molecules to protect against plague

    ... scientists have discovered a way to protect against death following infection with plague bacteria, by using molecules that can mimic the pathogens. According to research published in the July issue ...
  • Predicting Outbreaks Of Plague With The Help Of Satellite Images

    ... coffee particles, the water picks up the flavor of the coffee. Scientists now report in Nature that the spread of the bubonic plague bacteria in Central Asia by gerbils, works much the same way.
  • Scientists discover why plague is so lethal

    Bacteria that cause the bubonic plague may be more virulent than their close relatives because of a single genetic mutation, according to research published in the May issue of the journal ...
  • Where man boldly goes, bacteria follow

    ... in 1986 and microbial studies investigated the diversity of bacteria living alongside the astronauts. In 1998, free- ... microbes including faecal bacteria like E. coli, plague bacterium-related species ...
  • How The Bubonic Plague Made Europe Great

    ... . When other animals or humans contract this bacteria it is likewise from rodent or flea bites. Bubonic plague affects the lymph nodes resulting in swollen lymph glands (called ...
  • UCF professor develops vaccine to protect against black plague bioterror attack

    ... research shows is highly effective against the plague. Findings of his National Institutes of Health ... heavy dose of Yersinia Pestis bacteria, which causes the plague, at the U.S. Army Medical Research ...
  • Food poisoning bacteria prefer duck to beef on meat factory surfaces

    ... , Dublin. "Factories handling raw and processed meat products can become plagued by persistent harmful Listeria monocytogenes bacteria stuck to their work surfaces and machinery from where they can ...
  • Salmonella: Trickier than we imagined

    ... PloS One, researchers say they've identified a molecular trick that may explain part of the bacteria's fierceness. A team from the University of Rochester Medical Center has identified a protein that ...
  • People only eat 1 when the chips are brown

    ... vector or insect that transmits the pathogen, he said. Others are trying to identify the pathogen or bacteria that actually causes disease in the plant when the psyllid feeds on it. Henne and other ...
  • Defining DNA differences to track and tackle typhoid

    ... typhoid fever. Unlike most related Salmonella species, and in contrast to many other bacteria, Typhi is found only in humans and the genomes of all isolates are superficially extremely similar, ...
  • Symbiotic microbes induce profound genetic changes in their hosts

    ... pathogens," like the bubonic plague-causing Yersinia pestis, most bacteria are not inherently good or bad, ... inches long that nurtures a single type of light-producing bacteria, called Vibrio fischeri. ...
  • Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology

    ... mice were then challenged intravenously with Y. pestis following which low levels of the bacteria were found in the organs and blood. Finally, IP32680 was administered orally and results showed that ...
  • Nature inspires new highly specific drugs and organic products

    ... , research director at the state run Greek research centre NCSR Demokritos, explained how bacteria could be disabled by targeting the RNA binding molecules needed for their genes to be expressed. It ...
  • Is re-emerging superbug the next MRSA?

    ... of the bacteria Clostridium difficile, a virulent strain of a common intestinal bacteria currently plaguing hospitals that now rivals the superbug Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ...
  • Is Re-emerging Superbug The Next MRSA?

    ... issuing a warning that Clostridium difficile, a virulent strain of an intestinal bacteria, is currently plaguing hospitals and now rivals the superbug Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus as a ...

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