Each year, tens of thousands of people die because they are infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Oysters grown in pristine northern waters, say Maine or Washington, have extremely low incidence of bacteria.
But this form of staph is actually starting to look like the flesh-eating bacteria.
It's really the behavior that transmits the bacteria and not the identity of the individual.
If a mother smoked, we were more likely to find the bacteria in these children.
They may even use harmless bacteria as a transport link to arm other harmful bugs that pass by.
Are we condemned to drink this electronic bacteria with each sip of real traffic?
By altering the bacteria's genes, they were able to transform the bugs into fuel-producing factories.
Other researchers used DNA to encode poetry and popular music inside the living cells of bacteria.
But it can also be caused by bacteria, either foodborne or personally transmitted, he said.
Consider meningococcal disease, a rare but devastating bacteria-caused illness that primarily affects infants and children.
Bacteria evolved the necessary chemistry to "fix" nitrogen from the air, about two billion years ago.
Staff at the Antrim nursery, children and parents have been screened for the bacteria.
This could endanger the health of humans directly if the bacteria got into food.
Even more alarming, resistant bacteria are breaking out to infect healthy people outside the hospital ward.
It is a human monoclonal antibody that attacks the toxins anthrax bacteria spew out.
However, poisons produced by bacteria can interfere with the communication process that regulates this cycle.
Antibiotics lose their effectiveness over time, as bacteria naturally evolve and mutate, becoming resistant.
But whether the bacteria will be able to digest this much spilled oil isn't known.
There appears to be no mention of whether the bacteria infected anybody during the trials.
It is in advanced testing for a drug to treat skin infections caused by bacteria.
Instead, the bacteria can quickly mutate to become resistant to the other drugs in the cocktail.
Undermedication is dangerous because this is how the TB bacteria develop resistance to drugs.
Researchers analyzed the genomes of leprosy-causing bacteria collected from seven patients and one armadillo.
Genomatica uses E.coli bacteria as part of the process to turn sugar into BDO.
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Why do hospitals let doctors, orderlies and visitors slosh bacteria around with every footstep?
Its surface is no more unpleasant than the inside of a volcanic vent, where bacteria thrive.
The 26-year-old rock 'n' roller suffers from cystic fibrosis, which fills her lungs with bacteria-infested mucus.
He discovered the plants' protector was an endophytic bacteria that produced an antifungal compound called pseudomycin.
The UV penetrates bacteria and either scrambles their DNA, preventing reproduction, or kills them outright.
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