Sentences with phrase «as mycobacterium»

Fish (and their aquarium) may contain a contagious germ known as Mycobacterium.

Studies have shown that autophagy may help remove infectious microbes such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and viruses such as HIV.

The goal is to find new ways to tackle the disease, which requires a thorough understanding of how the bacterium, known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, behaves once it takes hold of the macrophages in our lungs.

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What it does: This bacteria is most notorious for causing severe illnesses such as tuberculosis, leprosy, and Hansen's disease, though most species of mycobacteria in nature are benign in humans, unless in cases of those who have weakened immune systems.

Two of these enzymes are already being studies as potential drug targets; one against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and another against another type of worm.

As more mycobacterial genomes are sequenced, a picture is emerging that Distributive Conjugal Transfer may have shuffled the genomes of environmental mycobacteria to create a strain that was particularly well suited for growth in mammalian lungs.

Network analysis identifies Rv0324 and Rv0880 as regulators of bedaquiline tolerance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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.

The study began by taking the medical history of 11 children, all of whom had a disorder due to mycobacteria infections, as the basis.

The findings upend the long - held scientific belief that only cells, known specifically as dendritic cells, infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis could stimulate a broader, defensive immune system attack of the invading microorganism.

Next steps include trying to duplicate the mutant of this gene in the pathogenic form of mycobacteria, to demonstrate that the gene is indeed essential as predicted for infection to take place, the microbiologists say.

The Otago researchers» studies on hydrogen fermentation in mycobacteria have been performed in collaboration with Professor William Jacobs Jr., a world - leading bacterial geneticist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, who is known as the «TB terminator».

As part of the long effort to improve treatment of tuberculosis (TB), microbiologists led by Yasu Morita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they have for the first time characterized a protein involved in making a glycolipid compound found in the TB cell wall, which is critical for the disease - causing Mycobacterium to become infectious.

However, it's also a highly diffusible gas; hence, H2 production allows mycobacteria to produce energy by dissipating excess fuel as H2.

The researchers envision future research where they would try to find out how the mycobacteria manage to establish and sustain the vesicle hideouts as they evade discovery.

These cells allow for large scale screening using RNAi and have been successfully used to identify proteins involved in host interactions with important human bacterial pathogens such as Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus [42], [43], Mycobacterium spp. [44], Legionella pneumophila [45], Chlamydia spp. [46]--[48] and Listeria monocytogenes [49]--[51].

She is registred to the National Order of Biologists in the province of Palermo; collaboration in research project from 2012 to 2015 at the Department of Biopathology and Biotechnology, University of Palermo, focusing the study on the identification of molecules capable to modulate intracellular metabolic pathways for the prevention and treatment of infectious, tumor and degenerative disease, in collaboration with Prof. Angela Santoni, University of Rome; collaboration in research project in 2011 at the hospital «Villa Sofia Cervello» of Palermo to study methods can cure the genetic defect that causes thalassemia through genetic engineering; she studies different mechanisms of the differentiation and the activation of human gammadelta T cells as effector cells of the immune response against cancer and infectious diseases; she investigates about the identification and development of biomarkers of resistance and susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection; Valentina Orlando has published 13 papers in peer reviewed journals and 3 comunications at national and international congress.

The fluoroquinolones are broad - spectrum antibiotics that can be used to treat intracellular infections, such as those caused by brucella and mycobacteria.

The University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine is conducting a study of a type of tuberculosis in Basset Hounds known as Systemic Avian Tuberculosis or Mycobacterium Avian Complex, or MAC.

These natural antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are active against small and large bugs alike, even pathogens such as tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and the dastardly Staphylococcus aureus.