PNNL lands $10.3 million NIH biodefense contract to unlock proteomes of salmonella and pox
...the proteins that regulate the bacteria that cause salmonella poisoning and typhoid fever, and the monkey pox virus. The five-year award is the Department of Energy lab's third $10 million National Institutes of Health grant or contract in the past year and the second for Richard D. Smith, principal investigato...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
... Manure and irrigation water contaminated with salmonella may cause long-term contamination in soil and root vegetables say researchers from Georgia, Maryland and South Carolina. Their findings appear in the April 2004 issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. "Altho...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
... at Berkeley have identified a gene that may allow salmonella bacteria to contaminate chicken eggs. Their findings appear in the December 2003 issue of the journal Infection and Immunity. Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis in eggs is one of the leading causes of food-borne illnesses in the United States. ...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...llected from five Canadian patients suffering from salmonella infections and compared to a strain isolated from ...y of one of the patients. The human and pet treat salmonella were found to be "highly related," suggesting that the patients may have contracted an infection whe...Collaborative grant to Rutgers and Rep. of Georgia for salmonella research
... development of a treatment against drug-resistant salmonella bacteria. The grant comes from the U.S. Civilian ...be used against all bacterial pathogens that cause salmonella infection in humans. "This joint partnership between Rutgers and the Republic of Georgia can lead to...Fiber-boosted formula for piglets shows promise in battle against infant diarrhea
...ter seven days, the piglets were infected with the salmonella strain that commonly occurs in infants. The piglets' activity and signs of illness were monitored for seven more days, after which the piglets small intestines and colons were evaluated. "There was no change in body temperature among the piglets, bu...Study of bacterial enzyme reveals one key to cancer cell survival
...e in an attempt to kill invaders. Bacteria such as salmonella use the enzyme, called a peroxiredoxin, to inactiv...d the bacterial peroxiredoxins -- like the ones in salmonella that she has studied -- "are resistant to this inactivation." She explained, "Because the bacteria ...Biology breakthrough could aid understanding of cancer
...o model the atomic structure of peroxiredoxin from salmonella bacteria, as part of their programs in protein crystallography and understanding the basic biochemical processes of life. They found that the peroxiredoxin from bacteria does a great job of detoxifying hydrogen peroxide, keeping it from killing c...K-State microbiologist secret agent in battle against E. coli, other foodborne pathogens
...call for food microbiologists to be able to detect salmonella in 25 grams of meat. "There is no way on Earth right now that you can take a bio sensor or probe, stick it into the meat, stir it around and say 'I have salmonella,' " Fung said. "There's no way. So the problem right now is to find better ways to mak...Colorado U. to fly hardware, experiments on space shuttle, space station
...able to block infections," he said. "Studying how salmonella and yeast respond to microgravity will further our knowledge of molecular responses in space." Stodieck, chief scientist on the project for BioServe, is working with three investigators from Tulane Medical University and the Louisiana Veterans Resear...Scientists discuss microbial pathogenesis in era of bioterrorism, drug resistance
...the tricks used by the large and ancient family of salmonella bacteria, which are capable of causing a wide rang...fections like dysentery and typhoid fever. Because salmonella bacteria have co-existed with vertebrate hosts for perhaps as long as 10 million years, they have ha...Another transmembrane protein structure solved by Rockefeller scientists
...chloride channels pictured in the Nature paperfrom salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coliare homodimers, meaning they have two identical subunits composing the overall structure. Each subunit has its own pore for chloride ions to pass through. The potassium ion channel, by contrast, is a tetramer, meaning......e is expected to cut the time for the detection of salmonella from days, or even as long as two weeks in some ca...s or egg nog are at increased risk for contracting salmonella food poisoning, that risk may become much less in the near future because of this technology. Co-a...National survey reveals profound lack of scientific knowledge
...over arsenic levels in drinking water, testing for salmonella in school lunches, oil-drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Kyoto global warming agreement, as well as the California energy crisis, illustrate the type of science-based issues the country confronts every day. "Not only is science ch...Deadly for bacteria, great for consumers
...ater rivals chlorine and heat for killing E. coli, salmonella and listeria Washington D.C., August 24 -- E...adly combination also kills bacteria like E. coli, salmonella and listeria on foods and food utensils. "Electrolyzed water" - produced by applying an electric...Researchers Identify Key Gene That Controls Emergence Of Salmonella
... first documentation of aphase-shifting process in salmonella and in any food-borne bacteria that isrelated to i...the bacterial cell. Whenproduced inside an animal, salmonella cells become less visible to the immunesystem and cause illness as levelsincrease. The other version...Animal And Human Health Symposium Scheduled At Virginia Tech
...inia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. E.coli H:157, salmonella in poultry, "Mad Cow Disease," rabiesepidemics, and anthrax threats in biological warfare are just a few of theissues that have recently catapulted veterinary medicine into the headlines. "Veterinary medicine protects and enriches human life ...DT104 Advice:How To Slow Salmonella Spread
...water may contribute todisease spread. Of all the salmonella strains known to infect humans, DT104 isregarded ...s used to "fingerprint"DT104 among more than 2,000 salmonella types. Veterinarians were just becoming familiar with another relatively new salmonellaserotype, ...First Salmonella Vaccine For Poultry To Be On The Market Soon
...of food poisoning and deaths in humans infected by salmonella bacteria. Roy Curtiss III, Ph.D., George William ...s genetically engineered the most common strain of salmonella infecting chickens and developed it as an oral vaccine to be given to poultry. Curtiss deleted two ...