Sentences with phrase «by mycobacterium»

The first proven medical benefit of kefir was made by Russians wherein they said that it can cure tuberculosis, a disease of the lungs caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis which can lead to death if not properly treated.

Background: Bovine tuberculosis (bTB), caused by Mycobacterium bovis, is an important livestock disease raising public health and economic concerns around the world.

The primary causative agent in humans is Mycobacterium tuberculosis, whereas TB in wildlife results from infection by Mycobacterium bovis.

It is caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium, which attacks the lungs and other organs.

These blood tests are inaccurate because they rely on antibody detection of antigens produced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the organism that causes tuberculosis.

The drug works by inhibiting an enzyme used by Mycobacterium tuberculosis to replicate and spread throughout the body.

Wild boar and red deer are key hosts of bovine tuberculosis — a chronic, infectious disease mainly caused by Mycobacterium bovis — in southern Europe, with the incidence of TB in these animals particularly high in certain areas of Spain.

David Lomasney initially brought the issue to a town board meeting in May, saying his then - two - year old son was recovering from surgery to remove a growth from his neck caused by mycobacterium avian infection, adding that it may have happened because his neighbors have chickens which used to move freely onto his property.

The company's lead product candidate is amikacin liposome inhalation suspension, which is in late - state development for adult patients with treatment refractory nontuberculous mycobacteria lung disease caused by mycobacterium avium complex.

Not exact matches

The report, prepared by James Rodden of the Ulster County Health Department, noted that mycobacterium avium interstitial «is an infection caused by exposure to bird feces.»

Leprosy, a devastating chronic disease caused by the bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium leprae, was prevalent in Europe until the late Middle Ages.

This reductive evolution, unique among all pathogenic bacteria known so far, was unearthed from genome sequencing of Mycobacterium leprae several years ago before the discovery of Mycobacterium lepromatosis, by another research team.

Work led by MD Anderson pathologist Xiang - Yang Han, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in laboratory medicine, resulted in the discovery in 2008 of a new leprosy - causing species, called Mycobacterium lepromatosis.

TB disease is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is spread through the air, and can lead to violent cough attacks involving spitting up blood.

So I was pretty excited by a lovely little pearl in PLoS Pathogens last month discussing mycobacteriophages; the viruses that specifically attack mycobacteria.

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

They infect cattle by contaminating feeding areas and even the air with Mycobacterium bovis, the bacteria that causes TB both in badgers and in cows.

Now, by sequencing the whole genomes of over 1,000 isolates of mycobacteria from 517 individuals attending CF specialist centres in Europe, the US and Australia, researchers have demonstrated that the majority of CF patients have acquired transmissible forms of M. abscessus that have spread globally.

Then Mays, along with molecular biologist G. Michael Taylor of Imperial College in London, confirmed that the scars were signs of TB by identifying traces of gene sequences from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the 2300 - year - old remains.

TB, which is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, exploded in Russia and other former Soviet nations in the early 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its health system.

In collaboration with researchers in the US and Germany, Otago microbiologists have teased out the mechanisms by which the aerobic soil microbe Mycobacterium smegmatis is able to persist for extreme lengths of time in the absence, or near - absence, of oxygen.

The mystery of why mycobacteria — a family that includes the microbe that causes TB — are extraordinarily hardy organisms is being unravelled by University of Otago, New Zealand, research that offers new hope for developing a revolutionary class of antibiotics to tackle TB.

The results showed that the mycobacterium decides where to direct isocitrate by using a mechanism that is not like a simple on - off switch.

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.

Research carried out by the University of Sussex and the Polish Academy of Sciences has identified two key proteins that allow mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), to «lay low» within cells designed to destroy them.

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

EPFL scientists have now found that mycobacteria can switch between these two routes by using a «volume control» mechanism that improves their survival.

When in the human body, mycobacteria produce energy by metabolizing fats through a «cycle» of biochemical reactions.

The research team, led by Professor Paul Ortiz de Montellano in the US, investigated the impact of compounds related to cholesterol on the tuberculosis - causing bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

TB is caused by a bacterial species called Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is treated with a combination of antibiotics.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a curable and preventable disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and most often affects the lungs of infected individuals.

On October 13, 2016 a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Health Advisory and Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Safety Communication announced that the Stöckert 3T heater / cooler devices by LivaNova PLC (formerly the Sorin Group) may have been contaminated with Mycobacterium chimaera (M.Chimaera), a rare type nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM), during mMycobacterium chimaera (M.Chimaera), a rare type nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM), during mmycobacterium (NTM), during manufacturing.

Pharmacological Inhibition of Host Heme Oxygenase - 1 Suppresses Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection In Vivo by a Mechanism Dependent on T Lymphocytes.

Tumor necrosis factor alpha stimulates killing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by human neutrophils.

We are pleased to announce accreditation for two new qPCR methods: Legionella pneumophila by qPCR and Mycobacterium chimaera by qPCR.

On October 13, 2016 a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Advisory and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Safety Communication announced that Stöckert 3T heater / cooler devices by LivaNova PLC (formerly the Sorin Group) may have been contaminated with Mycobacterium chimaera (M. chimaera), a rare type of nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM), during mMycobacterium chimaera (M. chimaera), a rare type of nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM), during mmycobacterium (NTM), during manufacturing.

Caused by a bacterial infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb), TB most commonly affects the lungs but can affect any organ in the body.

Along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other organizations around the world, the ASBMB is observing Tuberculosis Day 2018 by sharing research news from scientists expanding our understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and a variety of perspectives on how the pathogen continues to affect our world.

The Department of Microbiology of the Yonsei University College of Medicine, is investigating on identification and functional study of virulence determinants in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by comparative genome - based analysis.

The mycobacteria rob their host's iron by releasing a type of iron - capturing siderophore called an exochelin, which, in turn, transfers and donates the iron back to the mycobactins which exist in the cell walls of the mycobacteria themselves.6

http://www.gutpathogens.com/content/2/1/21 The attached study makes a very convincing argument that ulcerative colitis and crohn's disease are caused by exposure to mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (map) directly from the milk of or feces (from runoff) of infected cows.

In the nineteenth century TB was believed to be caused by «miasma» (bad air) or heredity; only later was the cause revealed to be bacterial (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)

Prevent contracting mycobacterium by wearing rubber gloves when it is time to clean the fish tank.

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

Some 3T heater - cooler devices manufactured by LivaNova, PLC may have caused dangerous and deadly Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) infections in many patients.

Some 3T heater - cooler devices manufactured by LivaNova, PLC may have caused dangerous and deadly Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) infections in many...