Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
Now, a research team headed by investigators from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is the first to identify a mechanism by which influenza A, a family of
pathogens that
includes the most
deadly strains of flu worldwide, hijacks cellular machinery to replicate.