Sentences with phrase «bacteria by different mechanisms»

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In their quest to understand the mechanism by which 1018 kills bacteria, and specifically those in biofilms, the researchers reasoned that it had to interfere with a process that was common to different bacterial species.

To combat these multidrug - resistant bacteria, researchers have been searching for new classes of antibiotics that work by different mechanisms than current drugs.

The Dotiwala laboratory uses cellular, molecular, biochemical and omics approaches, as well as sophisticated in vivo imaging, to dissect the mechanism by which cell - based immunity (neutrophils, macrophages and killer lymphocytes) is activated in the presence of different pathogenic bacteria, such as intra - and extracellular bacteria, fungi and protozoa.

There are numerous, diverse mechanisms that allow a low frequency of gene movement between species, such as accidental fusion of cells between different species, or the injection of DNA by bacteria into plant cells.