Sentences with phrase «against tuberculosis bacteria»
«Scientists identify protein central to immune response against tuberculosis bacteria.»
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Researchers at China's Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University devised a CRISPR / Cas 9 technique to give cloned dairy cows a leg up against the bacteria behind bovine tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis).
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.
Despite having been vaccinated against the disease in 1989, which was 3 years before Sousa and her colleagues examined them, 58 % of the Indians had a weakened or nonexistent immune reaction in skin tests that measure cell response to the tuberculosis bacterium.
In tomorrow's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers report that more than half of the Yanomami people who had been vaccinated against TB do not produce a regular immune response to the tuberculosis bacterium.
To learn how Mycobacterium tuberculosis mounts a defense against a drug, Baliga is first looking within the bacterium, identifying the genes, proteins and other molecules that interact as the microbe infects a host.
In the test tube experiments, SMARt - 420 made ethionamide more potent in both ethionamide sensitive and resistant bacteria, and it worked against a wide range of M. tuberculosis strains.
The compounds have been shown to be effective in killing many species of bacterial pathogens but are generally less effective against the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
Current treatments against the tuberculosis - causing bacteria include prodrugs, such as ethionamide, which are activated by a bacterial enzyme.
In addition, when the scientists tested lansoprazole against a wide range of other bacteria, it proved to be highly selective for M. tuberculosis.
The team identified 26 compounds that were active against replicating tuberculosis bacteria, 19 killed dormant bacteria including seven that were active against both.
«Even though humans mount a defense against M. tuberculosis that can contain its growth, in general that defense is insufficient to kill the bacteria,» Dr. Shiloh explained.
The results could be useful in guiding the future design of novel medicines against multidrug - resistant tuberculosis, malaria, diabetes and antibiotic - resistant bacteria.
Fennel appears to increase the efficacy of the antibiotic, streptomycin when used against tuberculosis, although it shows no effect on the disease - causing bacteria themselves.
Lungwort contains natural antibiotics in its acids which act against the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, strep, staph, bacterial pneumonia, and other lung and chest infections.