Science news articles about 'strain of bacteria'

... anchor author. Van Vliet and her colleagues found the same trend in experiments with three strains of bacteria: Staphylococcus epidermidis, commonly found on skin, and two types of Escherichia coli. ...

... Could the use of nanosilver products create another problem for medicine -- strains of bacteria that are resistant to silver? Although silver is not used to treat disease, it is used in hospital ...

... Guildford, UK, have successfully developed a new strain of bacteria that can break down straw and agricultural ... Manager of TMO Renewables Ltd, based in Surrey Research Park, Guildford. The new strain ...

... Manitoba infant who died last week after being diagnosed with listeriosis was not a victim of the same strain of bacteria involved in a national outbreak that has killed 18 Canadians, health officials ...

... and colleagues have just isolated five new strains of bacteria that degrade old buildings. Their work1 is ... of 45 to 80 degrees Celsius (thermophilic bacteria). Laiz and her team studied three indoor ...

... fish's menu. But how did a single species of bacteria come to terms with such different hosts? Working ... helps keep out the bad guys." Both strains of bacteria, Mandel explains, have the same genes ...

... also provide a potential way to target the bad strains of bacteria for eradication without adversely affecting ... . coli). The E. coli that cause UTIs may come from the human gut, where several strains ...

... Gates Foundation. The current vaccine to prevent pneumonia in babies and the elderly combines 23 strains of bacteria, making it complex and expensive to produce. Each injection costs about $50 in the ...

... death." Now, at a time when the new antibiotics have proved futile against resistant strains of bacteria, researchers are using a different tactic to keep this ship at bay. Instead of using synthetic ...

BRAUNSCHWEIG, Germany, July 13 (UPI) -- German researchers say they have developed a method of better identifying various strains of bacteria

... extracted from otherwise useless mango kernels by Engels, have proven inhibitory effects against various strains of bacteria including Listeria, a potentially deadly pathogen that ...

A strain of bacteria that is harboured by insects kills male embryos - and itself - in "adaptive suicide", a study finds.

Cigarettes contain hundreds of different strains of bacteria , including many human pathogens that may play a role in lung diseases and respiratory infections, new research shows. [More]

A new drug-resistant strain of salmonella is causing an unusual number of deaths in Africa.

... the potential toxicity of existing antibacterial-fabric coatings. The researchers found that a certain strain of bacteria isolated from marine sediments produces large quantities of bright red ...