Sentences with phrase «against anthrax»

ATLANTA — The Pentagon's controversial policy of vaccinating soldiers against anthrax has not led to serious health problems, the first results of a multiyear study suggest.

Molecular biologists at Philadelphia's INB: Biotechnologies are using the vegetable to make vaccines against anthrax, influenza, even plague.

Not exact matches

Although much of that money goes to stockpiling vaccines and improving disease surveillance and information exchange, part of it pays for research into improved vaccines and other «countermeasures» against smallpox, anthrax, and botulinum toxin.

While still far from being declared a true antibiotic drug, the compound teixobactin tested well in lab dishes against Clostridium difficile, a microbe high on doctors» most - wanted list, as well as against bacteria that cause anthrax and tuberculosis.

In adults, studies have suggested that the anthrax vaccine is quite safe; it's made with inactivated protein from the anthrax bacteria, much like vaccines that protect against diptheria and tetanus.

The standard anthrax vaccine also protects against B. cereus; the team vaccinated about 100 animals in 2012 and 2013 and is now monitoring them.

Discovery of a new antibiotic After screening only a handful of soil bacteria, Mitchell's group discovered a novel product, cyclothiazomycin C (CC), an antibiotic that is effective against gram - positive bacteria like Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) and Staphylococcus aureus (Staph / MRSA).

But a serendipitous discovery may someday give doctors a new countermeasure against the disease: Researchers report in tomorrow's Science that they have identified a possible mechanism of action for «lethal factor» (LF), a toxic protein produced by the anthrax bacillus that is thought to be one of the principal causes of death in infected individuals.

Although the case never went to trial because of Ivins's suicide on 29 July 2008, FBI officials have claimed that the evidence against him is indisputable and that he carried out the mailings using anthrax stolen from a flask at USAMRIID.

In 1988, Matthew Meselson, a biochemist from Harvard and a prominent campaigner against biological weapons, arranged for Soviet officials to give a lecture tour in the US to present their explanation of how the anthrax outbreak could have been caused by contaminated meat.

During 2002 through 2006, VXGN developed vaccines against inhalation anthrax and smallpox for the purpose of biodefense.

People who live in areas where anthrax has occurred should consider vaccinating their livestock against the disease.

In 2001, Cipro was prescribed to thousands in Washington D.C. and in the postal service to protect against potential anthrax exposure.