Botulism bug has few genome wrinkles
... doesn't interact with human or other large animal hosts for prolonged periods of time. Occasionally it gets into a living animal, via contaminated food or open wounds, leading to infant botulism or wound botulism, both of which are serious human infections. The host can be quickly overpowered and, in so...Genome of Clostridium botulinum reveals the background to world's deadliest toxin
...d doesnt interact with human or other large animal hosts for prolonged periods of time. Occasionally it gets into a living animal, via contaminated food or open wounds, leading to infant botulism or wound botulism, both of which are serious human infections. The host can be quickly overpowered and, in so...Chemical Society Boston meeting, Aug. 19-23, focuses on health, wellness, energy, environment
... 19, when Catherine T. Hunt, Ph.D., ACS President, hosts a keynote symposium at which noted scientists will discuss challenges and opportunities for commercialization of new discoveries in biotechnology and nanotechnology. Media registration is now available at http://chemistry.org/news/acs_media_regis...Researchers discover 'acquired' DNA key to certain bacterial infection
...t to infect humans when the infected environmental hosts amoebas are inhaled or swallowed. Incidence of M. avium as a cause of syndromes may be decreasing because of changes in treatment for HIV-infected patients, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which estimates that 1 out ...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...ntified American bullfrogs as potentially suitable hosts for E. coli O157:H7, a common source of food-borne...American bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) are suitable hosts for Escherichia coli O157:H7. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73. 12: 4066-4068).......symptoms of the virus. Bats are known reservoir hosts of an increasing number of zoonotic viruses (animal viruses capable of also infecting people), but they rarely display clinical signs of infection, Dr Wang says. Although we have not yet obtained direct experimental evidence that Melaka virus origina...A compound from olive-pomace oil gets 80 percent slowing down of HIV spread
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...uses the host plant to die. Instead, many of these hosts allow spores to build up on leaf and twig surfaces...eby facilitating pathogen spread. These ornamental hosts have been found in P. ramorum-positive nurseries throughout the U.S. and other countries. Althoug...Anthrax bacterium's deadly secrets probed
...ng bacterium may secrete proteins that subvert the hosts immune system, enabling the bacterium to infect cells or survive in the bloodstream. Knowledge of a pathogenic bacteriums secreted proteins and how they function can therefore help with the search for treatments. As genes carry the code for protein......s, ACS President Catherine T. (Katie) Hunt, Ph.D., hosts a keynote symposium on Aug. 19 Material Innovatio... and Wellness. In addition, the ACS News Service hosts two special events related to food chemistry. On Aug. 20, reporters can sip wine and snack on clam c...