Treating bacterial infections can help asthmatics
...infections in their lungs, and that treatment with antibiotics can improve their ability to breathe. Researchers ...rovements in their lung function. "We believe that antibiotics may become an important addition to the therapeutic options for some patients with asthma," said Ric...Cranberry may offer protection against antibiotic-resistant bacteria that cause UTIs
... A lower number of infections means reduced use of antibiotics and lower potential risk of developing further bac...w E. coli strains are resistant to the most common antibiotics used to treat UTIs, prompting physicians and researchers to look for alternatives." The JAMA finding...'Rock-paper-scissors' preserves biodiversity in bacterial neighborhoods
...the ecology and evolution of bacteria that produce antibiotics that are of potential medical importance." This work also has the potential to help answer one of the biggest questions in ecology and evolution: Why are there so many different types of organisms out there? The localization of dispersal and interact...Clemson researchers find bacteria fighter that does not promote bacterial resistance
...uch a product could reduce the use of conventional antibiotics to treat non-life-threatening diseases and the rise in antibiotics resistant bacteria." Through the Greenville Hospital System-Clemson University Biomedical Cooperativ...Medicated ecosystems: Human drugs alter key aquatic organism
TUCSON, Ariz. -- The overuse of antibiotics not only leads to more resistant strains of infect...research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, antibiotics also may be adversely affecting zooplankton, tiny organisms that underpin the health of all freshwat...Natural-born killers enlisted to fight anthrax
...asn't until the need for alternative strategies to antibiotics became increasingly pressing that he thought of using these enzymes to kill reservoirs of infectious bacteria in people. Since nearly all bacteria have bacteriophage systems, this strategy may be applied to most disease bacteria. In February 2001, in...Gene variant increases risk of cardiac arrhythmia for African-Americans
... avoiding any of a broad range of drugs, including antibiotics such as erythromycin and antihistamines such as Seldane, which affect heart rhythm. People with a risk of arrhythmia should monitor their potassium levels to ensure that they remain in the normal range and take beta-blockers to stabilize the heartbea...Compound from yeast shows promise in protecting against anthrax
...existing anthrax therapies, including vaccines and antibiotics and antibodies to the anthrax toxin, he added....Sequence provides insights into a pathogen's virulence mechanism allowing for vaccine development
...ons has dropped since physicians began prescribing antibiotics during delivery for high-risk pregnant women in 1996, but invasive infections in adults with deficient immune systems have increased. S. agalactiae has a circular genome of about 2.16 million base pairs. Researchers predicted that there are 2,176 ge...Molecular machine could develop drugs for bioweapons victims
...pplications in the development of new and powerful antibiotics for use in the treatment of illnesses caused by al...el is very useful to drug designers developing new antibiotics and a large research community doing studies of the E-coli ribosome in test tubes and in living syst...Sequenced malaria genome exposes novel drug targets
...he same problems with resistance to herbicides and antibiotics as we face now, but we enter this armed with an extensive knowledge of how plants and bacteria develop resistance to these compounds. Forewarned is forearmed," he says. McFadden and Ralph's work has implications for treatment of other devastating di...Eczema patients lack natural antibiotic in skin
...al antibiotics, said Dr. Gallo. While conventional antibiotics attack only bacteria, the antimicrobial peptides fight bacteria, viruses and fungi. Researchers will also be working in the next several years to alter the immune response of atopic dermatitis patients to promote the production of the antimicrobial p...Researchers determine how 'hospital staph' resists antibiotics
...s ,staph infections were treated using beta-lactam antibiotics such asmethicillin, which block the bacterial enzy...itutes a single target, in terms of developing new antibiotics that canovercome this resistance," she said. To understand the detailed structure of PBP2a, Lim pro...UIC chemists identify compound that inhibits cell migration
...t years have been used successfully to develop new antibiotics that kill bacteria now resistant to older drugs. UIC-1005, however, shows no anti-bacterial properties and acts differently. Fenteany hopes other labs adopt this high-throughput assay to hasten the discovery of additional molecules that inhibit cell ...Report examines use of antibiotics in agriculture
...f agriculture for many years. Agricultural uses of antibiotics include the treatment and prevention of diseases i...th animals raise serious concerns about the use of antibiotics in agriculture. The concerns are three-fold: (1) that antibiotic resistance genes are amplified in t......agnoses. We could avoid over-prescribing powerful antibiotics which are usually given to patients while we're waiting for their test results, even though we don't know if they actually need them," adds Hanson. In the current study, 415 mechanically ventilated, critical care patients were screened for the pres...Detecting bacteria in space: The good, the bad and the unknown
... result in making some organisms more resistant to antibiotics or perhaps causing others that are normally harmless to become infectious. "Because of space's unidentified effects on bacteria and the immune system, we don't know which organisms will cause problems," Fox said. "However, we have developed a techni...LSUHSC research shows drug blocks enzyme that activates bacterial and viral toxins
... for its resistance to antibiotics. Although some antibiotics are effective against some strains, even those antibiotics are not effective against all strains. Sepsis, a systemic infection, is the leading cause of dea...JCI Table of Contents, November 18, 2002
...ntinue to increase. Disturbingly, our stockpile of antibiotics is notevolving at a rate capable of quelling the uprising of resistance. Determining whether an infection is contained or succeeds in spreading is acomplex battle between defensive cells of the patient's immune system andthe onslaught of the array of......ntinue to increase. Disturbingly, our stockpile of antibiotics is notevolving at a rate capable of quelling the uprising of resistance. Determining whether an infection is contained or succeeds in spreading is acomplex battle between defensive cells of the patient's immune system andthe onslaught of the array of...