Sentences with phrase «carry spores»

Though the findings were made in mice, not humans, the researchers say the crucial role of calcium may help explain another mystery: Why some hospital patients and nursing home residents have a much higher risk of contracting C. diff infections and the resulting diarrhea that carries its spores out of the body.

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The office, which has always been limited by a small budget and staff, continues to gauge a spacecraft's «bioburden» based on a classic measure — the number of cultivable microbial spores it carries.

Yet existing mycopesticides worked poorly against social insects, which could smell the spores and stop workers carrying them from entering the nest.

His idea was to train the fungus, which normally produces spores nonstop, to hold off until the ants had carried it into the nest.

We have good evidence that the new invasion of yellow rust into Europe was spread by rust spores carried by the wind from Asia to Europe, possibly through the northern part of Central Asia.

«They then carry bacteria during spore dispersal and can seed a new food crop, which is a major advantage if edible bacteria are lacking at the new site.»

Dr Bischofs explains that the enzyme is passed down from one generation of bacteria to the next by carry - over until spores are formed.

Sylvia Cremer and her group have previously shown that invasive garden ants (Lasius neglectus) care for colony members carrying pathogenic fungus spores by intensively grooming the contaminated individual's body, which reduces the risk of the fungus entering the body and infecting the ant.

The bacteria at the very top of the stalk turn into spores, which can be carried away by wind or water to another spot where they can start a new pack.

That finding suggests that spore - forming microbes — including ones that humans carry with them — could survive in soils moistened by briny waters.

At any one time, an estimated 7 billion tonnes of ballast water is crossing the oceans — almost all of it carrying seeds, spores, eggs, larvae, bacteria and plankton native to wherever the water was loaded.

When the two regions make contact, they coalesce, and the tension between hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions creates a force that carries the entire spore into the air.

Tea leaves are not typically pasteurized during their processing, and may carry viable bacteria and / or bacterial spores.

Most healthy dogs and cats do not carry infective fungal spores on their skin or hair.

A carrier of ringworm is one that is infected but not showing lesions (usually this will be the pet that has been on treatment for a while and appears visually to be cured but in fact is still infected) or one that is simply carrying the fungus on its fur in the same way an inanimate object might have fungal spores on its surface.

It's extremely contagious as the spores are carried on sloughed - off skin, shed hair and toenail castings.

It's also possible for a pet to carry ringworm spores and not show any symptoms whatsoever.

Seeds and spores carried by the wind and birds has fertilised the island and enabled the growth of plant life.

Seeds and spores carried by the wind and birds has fertilised the island and enabled the growth of plant life and exotic blooms.