Sentences with phrase «deadly pathogens in»

AHP ® is unique in its ability to kill deadly pathogens in half the time of legacy or traditional disinfectants, helping to keep patients safer during a veterinary visit.

Frieden said part of the problem is that scientists who have spent years studying deadly pathogens in nature can become «inured to that danger» in their own labs.

The plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, is one of the deadliest pathogens in human history, sparking three major pandemics: the Plague of Justinian, which struck the Roman Empire during the 6th and 8th centuries; the second plague pandemic, which first erupted in Europe in the mid-14th-century Black Death and continued to strike the continent in recurrent outbreaks until the mid-18th century; and the third plague pandemic, which emerged in China during the late 19th century.

The measles virus is one of the deadliest pathogens in human history.

Not exact matches

«Norovirus is one of the deadliest human pathogens that we know the least about,» said first author Craig B. Wilen, MD, PhD, an instructor in pathology and immunology.

The deadly pathogen first emerged in the West Nile district of Uganda in 1937, then lay dormant for about 20 years before it cropped up again in Israel in the 1950s and reappeared in Romania in 1996.

Among the affected microorganisms were three that commonly cause deadly hospital - acquired infections, including Staphylococcus aureus and two emerging bacterial pathogens, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and Acinetobacter baumannii, that are a growing cause of infections in hospital intensive - care units.

Now, in a novel twist, researchers have found a way to recruit help from none other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis itself to make the deadly pathogen susceptible to an existing TB drug that it has learned to dodge.

Now, in a novel twist, researchers have found a way to recruit help from none other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis itself to make the deadly pathogen susceptible to an existing tuberculosis (TB) drug that it has learned to dodge.

Investigators found four other incidents in the past decade when deadly pathogens were mishandled, including an event in March when a sample of the avian flu strain H5N1 was contaminated with a more lethal strain and accidentally shipped to a USDA lab without proper protections.

Eduard Akhunov, associate professor of plant pathology at Kansas State University, and his colleague, Jorge Dubcovsky from the University of California - Davis, led a research project that identified a gene that gives wheat plants resistance to one of the most deadly races of the wheat stem rust pathogen — called Ug99 — that was first discovered in Uganda in 1999.

President Nixon officially closed the offensive part of the program in 1972, but since then scientists have labored to develop vaccines to defend troops and civilians against deadly pathogens.

On the heels of several mishaps involving deadly pathogens, U.S. officials are reconvening an expert advisory panel that hasn't met in nearly 2 years.

Researching the evolution and diversification of insects is particularly important for all sorts of reasons, from attempts to understand changes in global diversity to detailed taxonomy and evolution of those groups — for example, the notorious Culicidae, the mosquito family, that act as vectors of some of the most deadly pathogens.

As Read first argued in a Nature paper 14 years ago, by keeping their hosts alive, such «imperfect» or «leaky» vaccines could give deadlier pathogens an edge, allowing them to spread when they would normally burn out quickly.

A protein known as suPAR has been identified in recent years as both a reliable marker for chronic kidney disease and a pathogen of the often deadly condition.

The increasing emergence of deadly fungal pathogens — including white - nose syndrome in bats, chytridiomycosis (chytrid) in amphibians and SFD in snakes — is of grave concern to wildlife disease experts worldwide.

First, I describe deadly host - pathogen relations in the jungle using photos from photos from Alex Wild and the Tom - Waits narrated video from the BBC.

His laboratory and their collaborators have also identified human amyloid fibrils in semen that enhance the ability of HIV to infect new cells — a discovery that one day could help stem the global spread of this deadly pathogen.

Recently, Dr. Greene's lab identified human protein fragments in semen that enhance the ability of HIV to infect new cells — a discovery that one day could help stem the global spread of this deadly pathogen.

A new study finds populations of several frog species in Panama appear to be gaining resistance to a deadly pathogen that can lead to extinction.

Poor dispersal ability of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans In the race to prevent the spread of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (or Bsal), a fungal pathogen deadly to salamanders, scientists have been investigating its ecology and... AmphibiaWeb

The breakthrough described in the PLoS Pathogens article explains a key reason why the viruses are so deadly and provides the necessary templates to develop drugs to treat the infection.

In a press release, the nonprofit AKC - CHF singled out Breitschwerdt's innovative, leading - edge research in infectious disease research that, «has advanced our knowledge of deadly pathogens that cross species barriers, contributing to both canine and human health.&raquIn a press release, the nonprofit AKC - CHF singled out Breitschwerdt's innovative, leading - edge research in infectious disease research that, «has advanced our knowledge of deadly pathogens that cross species barriers, contributing to both canine and human health.&raquin infectious disease research that, «has advanced our knowledge of deadly pathogens that cross species barriers, contributing to both canine and human health.»

In a recent development, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was forced to admit that a patented liquid silver solution called Axen30TM when used as a surface disinfectant had the ability to kill multiple strains of MRSA plus additional deadly pathogens such as Avian Influenza A (Bird Flu), Human Corona virus (SARS), Feline Calicivirus (Norovirus), Rotavirus, Campylobacter jjejuni and Acinetobacter baumannii.