Sentences with phrase «caused by microbes»

«When we first realized infections were caused by microbes, and that we could control that with sanitation and drugs, that was considered a great thing.

They are all caused by microbes — minute organisms which have fascinated us ever since the Dutch merchant Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovered the invisible but teeming world of «small life» in the 17th century.

Listeriosis is an infection caused by microbes.

Diarrhea is often — but not always — infectious, meaning that it is thought to be caused by a microbe such as a virus, bacterium or parasite that can spread from person to person.

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By making sure desirable microbes flourish in their proper balance, the supplements will help ensure that bad ones, like the ones that cause yeast infections, can't get a toehold.

«Corked» is more of a blanket term for any spoilage caused by the natural cork, and various foul compounds which can be associated with various contaminating microbes.

Supply of limited resources is being further constrained by more severe and unpredictable climate events and more potent microbes, pests and diseases — causing food producers to more seriously consider the environmental life cycle impact of food production activities.

The tutorials will teach you how to recognize bacterial mastitis caused by cuts and cracks in the nipples giving a leeway for microbes to infest and attack the mammary cells and tissues leading to infection in the breasts.

Ecologically sustainable bamboo forests grown for fabric production do not require the use of pesticides or anti-fungal agents, and the fabric produced from bamboo kills 99.8 percent of germs that cause the potentially deadly Staph infection, along with many other dangerous microbes, according to a study by North Carolina State University's College of Textiles.

Despite years of study, the means by which these microbes cause such severe disease remain mysterious.

«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.

«Jet lag can cause obesity by disrupting the daily rhythms of gut microbes.»

New pandemics are most likely to be triggered by mutant strains of familiar microbe species, especially those that have caused plagues by churning out mutant strains in the past.

Overhyped microbes include anthrax (famous for the U.S. mail attacks in 2000), the Ebola and Marburg viruses (which can cause dramatic bleeding and high fever in their victims), and the prion agent of mad cow disease (otherwise known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), which kills people by making their nervous systems degenerate.

Early results show that the capsules have cured 32 people infected with drug - resistant Clostridium difficile, a dangerous microbe that installs itself in the gut and causes inflammation marked by diarrhea, cramping and pain.Thomas Louie, an infectious disease physician at the University of Calgary in Alberta, presented the data on October 3 at ID Week, a meeting of infectious disease specialists.

We're just now beginning to understand how our normal microflora does such a good job of preventing our colonization by disease - causing microbes.

Scientists are keeping a close watch on variables that might affect life in the open ocean, including depleted oxygen levels caused by a feeding frenzy from oil - and gas - eating microbes, and the unknown effects of dispersants, which break the oil into droplets but may keep it suspended in the water.

But in those with immune systems weakened by age, chemotherapy or antibiotics that wipe out their «lawn» of beneficial intestinal microbes, C. difficile can get a foothold and cause changes that damage the gut.

The toxins produced by these particular microbes are capable of causing inflammation and necrosis (death and decay) of intestinal wall — hence the process is called enteritis necroticans.

To say that the cataclysm was caused by deep - living microbes would be excessive — but their methane may have had a lot to do with it.

The world greets newborn babies by bombarding them with everything from dust to disease - causing microbes.

Chang's team addressed those limitations by making a new kind of bacterial «gun - for - hire» that can sense an infection, swim toward it and kill off the disease - causing microbes.

Against conventional wisdom, they discovered cholera to be caused by a waterborne microbe.

Louca suspects that interactions between organisms that are not directly related to metabolic function, such as infection by viruses or «chemical warfare» between microbes, may be causing this variation of species that can not be explained based on environmental conditions.

There are two main problems caused by bacteria and other microbes in water: they can make the water toxic, and make it smell bad.

In the journal Nature, Manuela Raffatellu, associate professor of microbiology & molecular genetics, and colleagues provide the first evidence that small protein molecules called microcins, produced by beneficial gut microbes, play a critical part in blocking certain illness - causing bacteria in inflamed intestines.

«Proteins secreted by beneficial gut microbes shown to inhibit salmonella, invasive E. coli: Study finds that microcins help block illness - causing bacteria in inflamed intestines.»

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 average life span for a pygmy is only about 17 years; a leading cause of death is infectious disease carried by the miasma of microbes that flourish in the hot, moist jungle.

Microbes that cause diseases like HIV, malaria, and hepatitis C exploit and often activate the same checkpoint pathways — cell surface receptors such as CTLA4 and PD - 1 — to slow immune cells and prevent their elimination by the host.

Eating food or drinking water contaminated by shiga - producing bacteria typically causes gastrointestinal symptoms such as bloody diarrhea, and the microbes can be lethal, often by damaging the kidneys so severely that the organs shut down.

Compounds produced by microbes either cause changes in the gut directly or pass into the host's bloodstream and influence the central nervous system, possibly through neural, hormonal and immune pathways5.

These chronic infections are often caused by common, environmental microbes that mutate in ways that let them live and thrive in viscous lung secretions.

The researchers found that bacteria forming part of a cluster were more likely to be taken up by human cells and to survive in them than the microbes without close relatives; the cluster strains also caused more severe disease in mice.

Many people with Alzheimer's die of sepsis, which can be caused by infections, and he believes brain tissue samples could have been contaminated during autopsies with microbes from elsewhere in the body.

The research reported in PLoS Pathogens suggests that the endemicity of any microbe, caused by genetic specialization, could be a marker for future extinction.

Instead, the real cause of obesity - associated joint overload may be inflammation — body - wide inflammation driven by the microbes that...

The most interesting aspect of the study, say the authors, is the discovery of a new, specialized function of a certain type of regulatory T cell, which is to enable microbes to play useful roles by keeping them from causing inflammation.

Even if such efforts succeed, they won't necessarily cause native Mars life to be swamped by microbes from Earth, Rummel said — especially if Red Planet organisms exist only underground, where they're shielded from harmful radiation.

Studies conducted and supported by NIAID have led to important new discoveries about the microbes that cause NTDs, the identification of targets for potential new drugs and vaccines, and the development of strategies for controlling organisms that transmit NTD - causing agents to humans.

If a terrestrial microbe hitched a ride, it could be picked up by the mission's tests, causing scientists to wrongly believe they had discovered alien life.

May 06, 2015 In late post-surgical colon «leaks,» finger points to microbes Post-surgical leaks that develop after a segment of the colon has been removed and stitched back together often are caused not by negligence or technical error but by bacteria in the bowel that elude antibiotics, according to new evidence about this devastating complication of gastrointestinal surgery.

One wonders how many human diseases are caused by perturbations in host - microbe interactions, and how we could use this knowledge to prevent and / or treat such perturbations.

It is caused by a massive die - off of microbes in the bloodstream.

It also has very potent antibacterial properties which come in handy in fighting various conditions caused by the activity of microbes and bacteria.

Because humans lack a suitable enzyme in the small intestine to digest it, a majority of lactitol reaches the large intestine, where it then becomes fermentable to gut microbes (prebiotic) and can pull water into the gut by osmosis, causing a laxative effect.

Not in the wholesale, everything - is - caused - by - yeast strategy that I see among some practitioners in the alternative medicine world, but in having a healthy suspicion that some or many of my patients» most nagging symptoms might be due to dysbiosis, an imbalance in the microbes of their gut flora, including overgrowth of yeast.

It can also keep your voice beautiful and strong for presentations and meetings by breaking up mucus and killing sore throat - causing microbes.

In a nut shell, leaky gut syndrome (LGS) describes a condition of altered or damaged bowel lining, caused by antibiotics, toxins, poor diet, parasites or infection can lead to increased permeability of the gut wall to toxins, microbes, undigested food, waste or larger than normal macromolecules.

The smell is caused by a gas called hydrogen sulphide usually contained in sulfur proteins found in some foods and is released when they are broken down by sulfur reducing microbes in the stomach or small intestine.