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...eriathrough powerful computing and determine which antibiotics it's resistant to andwhich could be used to treat the patient, cutting the amount of time necessarybetween illness and treatment. Convenient monitoring tools, such as a wristwatch-type device that monitorspulse, respiration and temperature constantl...Researchers Learn How Nature Produces Cholesterol-Lowering Lovastatin
... microorganisms produce related substances such as antibiotics and certaincancer-fighting agents, reported their findings in the May 21 Science. The discovery may prove useful to pharmaceutical companies, which currentlymanufacture nearly $4 billion of cholesterol-lowering drugs each year, byproviding a more eff...Until recently, a storehouse of antibiotics could fight off most infections frombacteria. But the overuse of antibiotics by doctors and veterinarians hascreated dangerous strains of bacteria resistant to these once powerf...Lab on a chip? Cheap, disposable UD biosensor uses gold-on-plastic design
...lev explains. Latex agglutination testsalso detect antibiotics in foods and pregnancy-related hormones in urine. Thetests use latex coated with specific antigens, or foreign particles, to detectantibodies through a biochemical "clumping" process called agglutination, Velevsays. While the agglutination approach i...Symposium explores antibiotic-resistant bacteria: sources and strategies
...acquiredinfections. Vancomycin is one of the last antibiotics that can be used to treatinfections caused by multiple-resistant staphylococcus aureus and other harmfulbacteria. In two symposia, cosponsored by the ACS divisions of organicchemistry and medicinal chemistry, leading researchers will examine thestru...Linezolid is highly effective against antibiotic-resistant infections
...ezolid with that of a number ofcurrently available antibiotics against approximately 4,000 fresh bacteriaisolates of streptococci, enterococci and staphylococci. They found that linezolid showed potent activity against all isolatestested and was the most active antibiotic against oxacillin-resistantstap...Scientists dissect bacterial crosstalk
...elp us cope when our friendlybacteria are slain by antibiotics and harmful microbes rush to fill the placesat the table. "These messages undoubtedly contribute to the stability ofintestinal ecosystems," Gordon says. "So the lessons we learn may help us keepthe microbes we need and prevent the encroachment of tho...Mayo Clinic study implicates fungus as cause of chronic sinusitis
...ely used to treat chronicsinusitis. In most cases, antibiotics are not effective for chronic sinusitisbecause they target bacteria, not fungi. The over-the-counter drugs may offersome relief of symptoms, but they have no effect on the inflammation. "Medications haven't worked for chronic sinusitis because we d...Media Advisory: The Geological Society of America 1999 Annual Meeting
...ndwater quality; contamination of surface water by antibiotics and pathogensin animal waste from feed lots and other confined areas; and hypoxia, or lowoxygen, zones in the Gulf of Mexico caused by chemicals in the MississippiRiver. "EVOLUTION AND REMEDIATION OF ACID-SULFATE GROUNDWATER SYSTEMS AT RECLAIMED MI...Great increase seen in antibiotic-resistant bacteria in human colon
...cline has existed for many years, but it and other antibiotics still areprescribed widely, especially in operatin...ancegenes is being driven mainly by the overuse of antibiotics in human medicine,Salyers said, questions now are being raised about the widespread use ofantibiotic...Seeing one weapon from a food-borne pathogen
... them into adifferent folding context." There are antibiotics available that can kill Y. pseudotuberculosis ,but Bjorkman and Isberg say that structural information about invasin, andproteins from other types of bacteria that are "modeled on" invasin, may lead tobetter antibacterial agents. "We now have a more...Argonne biochips may halt tuberculosis epidemic
...tuberculosis cells grow slowly, patients must take antibiotics daily forat least six months to ensure that all the bacteria are eliminated. If treatmentis shortened, or inconsistent, surviving bacteria - those most resistant to thetreatment -- can reproduce, passing their resistance on to their offspring. In imp......esents a potential target for a whole new class of antibiotics to specifically prevent pathogenic bacteria from b... attacking the body's cells. "Most conventional antibiotics work by inhibiting processes essential to cell viability, such as DNA translation or the assembly of...Awareness, quick action key to battling canine bacterial disease
... and in some cases bloody diarrhea. At this point, antibiotics and even aggressive shock therapy are generally no...egrees F). Treatment at this point with injectable antibiotics (clindamycin or crystalline penicillin-G) is important in order to increase the likelihood of recove...Researcher finds alternatives to antibiotics for growing chickens
...ance issue has been whether the routine feeding of antibiotics to agricultural animals contributes to the increas... European countries have banned the routine use of antibiotics in chicken feed. However, Cook believes that banning antibiotics would dramatically increase food co...Dartmouth research offers clues to new anti-microbial treatments
...acteria that develop resistance to frequently used antibiotics may be paying off. Dartmouth Medical School (DMS)...ng numbers are becoming resistant to all available antibiotics at an alarming rate," says Taylor. "These recent findings may advance screening for additional comp...Nature's path leads scientists to new antibiotic strategy
...rates the feasibility of developing a new class of antibiotics that can potentially overcome the growing resistan...ion is different from that employed by traditional antibiotics like penicillins, for example, suggesting that it might take a very long time for bacteria to evolve...Researchers find unusual protein in bacterium
...lso offer a potential target for the design of new antibiotics and provide insight into the evolution of life, they say. The finding is described in the May 16 issue of Biochemistry, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. "We propose that, since this bac...Key DNA enzyme can tolerate more mutations than expected
...rch may illustrate how bacteria are able to resist antibiotics or other treatment drugs. Because their active site is so mutable, it becomes more likely that the organism may develop a resistance mutation. Meanwhile, Loeb's laboratory now has a library of 8,000 Taqs that scientists will now scrutinize for oth......ach to curing or preventing disease." All current antibiotics work by essentially killing bacteria. In the sear...s Cowan. The destruction of bacteria sensitive to antibiotics is a primary requisite for the rise of resistant mutants. Since these compounds don't kill the sens...