Sentences with phrase «by pathogens in»

The known FPRs include two immune system receptors that detect chemicals given off by pathogens in the blood, helping immune cells track down and attack foreign bodies.

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According to a 2011 report by the government newspaper Guangming Daily, a visitor must change into a sanitised working suit to avoid bringing in pollutants or pathogens.

These studies helped illuminate some of the molecular mechanisms by which these fungal pathogens cause disease in the banana.

That's why he spent $ 50 million of his own money developing the prototypes and testing them in Third World villages, and they work, and we have to get the word out because 50 percent of all human illness is caused by waterborne pathogens.

Haider: By bridging materials science, mechanical design, and advanced sterilization techniques to pre-attach spinal implants onto disposable delivery instruments, we've developed a technology that outperforms traditional systems in mechanical consistency and the risk of pathogen transmission, and that fundamentally changes the internal logistics of both hospitals and outpatient surgery centers.

Experts agree that pathogen contamination of produce growing in fields may be reduced by applying Good Agricultural Practices.

The food test kits developed and produced by ifp include: Rapid lateral - flow test kits for the on - site detection of food allergens (distributed by Romer Labs under the trademark AgraStrip); real - time PCR kits for the detection of pathogens, GMO, plant / animal species etc. (distributed by QIAGEN under the trademark mericon); microbiological vitamin test kits in microtiter plates (distributed by R - Biopharm under the trademark VitaFast); enzymatic kits in microtiter plates for the quantitative determination of sugars, organic acids and other metabolites (trademark EnzymeFast).

BactoCEASE NV products have been shown to be effective in extending shelf life by controlling growth of food - borne pathogens, such as Listeria monocytogenes, in fresh and Ready - to - Eat (RTE) meat and poultry products, without negatively impacting the texture or flavor of the finished product.

At the micro-level, the food and agribusiness sector is seeing an increase in the virulence of microorganisms and parasites, known pathogens spreading to novel geographies, and the continued rise of antimicrobial resistance.67 Global use of antimicrobials in livestock is expected to rise by 67 % by 2030 to 105,596 tons.68 China's livestock industry alone could soon be consuming almost one third of the world's available antibiotics.

When BPI argues that use of BLBT «increases the safety of products» it seems to be coming dangerously close to making the claim that by mixing the ammonia - hydroxide - treated substance into regular ground beef, its mere presence reduces pathogens in the rest of the product.

About 17 percent of the food served in schools is donated by the federal government and undergoes stringent Agriculture Department testing for dangerous pathogens.

The controversial rendered meat sludge that is treated with ammonia hydroxide to kill pathogens was dropped from fast food chains in recent years but is still purchased by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for institutional feeding programs including school meals.

An «imminent threat to public health» was declared in Suffolk County by the state Department of Health after the discovery of mosquitoes carrying Eastern equine encephalitis virus, a rare but potentially fatal pathogen.

However, early in the twentieth century the fungal pathogen that creates chestnut blight was accidentally imported into the U.S. from Asia, and by 1950 the American Chestnut had disappeared from our landscape.

Of the genetically diverse population of HIV - 1 viruses present in an infected pregnant woman, the few she might transmit to her child during delivery are resistant to attack by antibodies in her blood, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens by Amit Kumar of Duke University Medical Centre, North Carolina, and colleagues.

By exploiting new molecular and genetic insights, the research, done in collaboration with Pierre de Wit from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands, provides a better understanding of the defense system of crop plants against the damaging pathogens that grow in the spaces between plant cells.

What's new in the Czech study, explains pathologist Carol Meteyer of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisc., is the confirmation of tissue damage characteristic of clinical white - nose sydrome: skin being digested by the pathogen as the fungi's fibrous segments enter a bat's wing and begin replacing its cells.

That's good news because many of the most dangerous pathogens that are resistant to antibiotics are gram - negative (SN: 6/10/17, p. 8), according to a list released by the WHO in February.

Inflammation in response to the Salmonella stressed the pathogens themselves, and the resulting damage promoted bacteriophage replication, followed by rupture of the bacterial cell wall and release of the bacteriophages.

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

Women in the study with the more attractive low waist - to - hip ratios were actually more likely to be colonized by pathogens.

But men whose noses were colonized by the pathogens had higher BMI values on average, and that's the result that was promoted in a press release and ultimately drew media attention.

That hyper - response, Miller theorizes, is not unlike what's seen in autoimmune diseases, where the inflammation provoked by an immune system attack proves far more damaging than any pathogen itself.

The cell was created by stitching together the genome of a goat pathogen called Mycoplasma mycoides from smaller stretches of DNA synthesised in the lab, and inserting the genome into the empty cytoplasm of a related bacterium.

«Several studies have measured parasite infection in urban animals, but surprisingly we are the first to measure whether wild birds living in a city were more or less infected by a parasite and a pathogen, as well as how these infections are linked to their physiological stress,» said Mathieu Giraudeau, a post-doctoral associate who previously worked with Kevin McGraw, ASU associate professor with the School of Life Sciences.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, and in the Netherlands have discovered how a group of three closely related fungal pathogens have evolved into a lethal threat to the world's bananas, whilst an international consortium led by scientists from Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre) has unravelled the DNA of the fungus that causes black Sigatoka disease in bananas.

They help in our digestion, prevent infection by pathogens and educate our immune system on what to fight.»

If a pathogen is present in the food or drink inside the package, it would trigger a signal in the packaging that could be read by a smartphone or other simple device.

These thin sections, which can only be produced in a few places throughout the world, where subsequently examined by a special light microscopy technique to morphologically determine the pathogen involved.

The study, in collaboration with the University of Surrey, Stanford University and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, was published in PLoS Pathogens and supported by the Royal Society and Wellcome.

Millions of illnesses and more than 1,000 deaths every year in the U.S. are attributable to foodborne illness caused by known pathogens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

► Last Friday, a Sifter pointed to a story about a «massive investigation by USA Today» that «revealed details of hundreds of accidents in recent years at U.S. high - containment laboratories studying dangerous pathogens.»

Instead, extra genes picked up by some pathogens can cause different strains to have wildly different effects on the immune system, even in the same person, researchers report January 11 in PLOS Ppathogens can cause different strains to have wildly different effects on the immune system, even in the same person, researchers report January 11 in PLOS PathogensPathogens.

A study published on October 23rd in PLOS Pathogens reports that a bacterium isolated from the gut of an Aedes mosquito can reduce infection of mosquitoes by malaria parasites and dengue virus.

Using data sourced from existing studies and information collected together in the Liverpool ENHanCEd Infectious Diseases (EID2) database, the researchers cross-referenced all known cases of parasites and pathogens in domestic animals with the length of time they have been domesticated by man.

By following the DNA - transfer, scientists for the very first time showed an unknown mechanism called carry back in which pathogens were able to snatch genes from far - related bacteria via the carry back mechanism.

A previous study of rats in New York by investigators at CII found several of the same pathogens, including E. coli, Salmonella, and C. difficile.

S. aureus was the most common pathogen, causing 28 percent of bloodstream infections, closely followed by E. coli, which was found in 24 percent of patients with infections.

This finding is important because in the proper ratios, Enterobacteriaceae also fulfill the role of resisting colonization by bacterial pathogens,» Dr. Winter said.

Vaccination is based on the principle, developed by Edward Jenner in 1796, whereby the body's immune system, inoculated with a killed or weakened pathogen, naturally creates a protective response to the disease.

Published a month apart in PLOS Pathogens, the studies from Professor Ethan Bier's laboratory used a series of experiments to identify key pathways and mechanisms previously unknown or overlooked in the body's defenses.

D: In the future, could we fight cancer by controlling the evolution of viruses and other pathogens?

Based on his results, and published studies on the B2 protein of Flock house virus, an insect pathogen, Ding proposed in a 1995 paper that 2b and B2 proteins act by suppressing the host's antiviral defense.

Their hunt for a pathogen has been fruitless so far, triggering anxiety in a country scarred, emotionally and economically, by two devastating cattle epidemics in 15 years.

The damage was inconsistent with that caused by two known cattle pathogens, Borna disease virus and lyssavirus, VLA researchers report in the 12 June Veterinary Record.

The new list will be tiered by risk, a concept that the Administration is applying, in parallel, to the safekeeping of dangerous pathogens.

«This study is one of the first to show that gradual and subtle changes in forest structure and species composition, driven by climate change — as well as invasive insects and pathogens that act on a fraction of tree species within a forest — can also affect water yield.»

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

Lo was encouraged by the variants because retroviruses are extremely mutable pathogens that change their gene sequences again and again in response to immune system efforts to kill them.

The intestinal pathogen C. difficile is most commonly found in hospitals and is often acquired by older people and people with weakened immune systems.