Bacteria

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This agar dish has been created by allowing tiny amounts of the bacteria Citrobacter (turquoise), Escherichia coli (purple), and multidrug resistant Klebsiella (dark blue) to grow overnight, replicating what happens naturally in the gut, where the “good” bacteria keep the more harmful “bad” ones under control.  

Children at the highest risk for asthma had a lower abundance of four bacteria in their gut in their first 3 months of life, a critical period that may offer future opportunities for prevention.  

Yersinia pestis - The Plague : Microbiology Lectures The Plague, The Black Death, The Plague of Justinian they are all caused by the bacteria known as Yersin...  

Doctors should use diagnostic tests for infection more often, to prevent overprescribing of antibiotics that are responsible for the rise of drug-resistant bacteria, says the UK government's so-called superbug tsar.  

A baby dies at Scotland's newest children's hospital campus after becoming infected with harmful bacteria that has also affected five other infants.  

Competition between different bacteria species in the gut is what keeps humans healthy, an Oxford University study suggests.  

Bacteria are now resistant to drugs of last resort meaning the world is on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era", warn scientists.  

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Find strategies to minimize this emerging threat in the vulnerable population of solid organ transplant recipients.  

Bacteria that resist the most common antibiotic of last resort - colistin - are discovered in the UK.  

Proton pump inhibitors (PPI) used to reduce stomach acid and treat acid reflux change the populations of microbes living in the intestines, which may help explain why they increase the risk of certain infections, according to a new study.  

Standard antibiotic prophylaxis for pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) may miss important pathogens, according to U.S. and Italian researchers.  

Topical mupirocin therapy, used to treat symptomatic chronic sinusitis (CRS), might lead to increased pathogenic bacteria, according to Arizona-based researchers.  

Bacteria recovered from Oetzi the Iceman shed light on his health and also human history, scientists report.  

The authors present a model for a simple to use, low-cost lab-on-chip system for the detection, identification and quantification of periodontal bacteria.