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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.

«As they feed antibiotics to animals to keep them healthy, they are making our families sicker by spreading these deadly strains of bacteria.»

He called claims of reduced levels of the deadly strain of E. coli 0157: H7 «totally misleading.»

It is the first case of the deadly strain of bird flu, which has killed more than 100 people worldwide, found in British birds, and it prompted a meeting of the cabinet emergency committee, Cobra, in Downing Street this morning.

With the help of fellow researchers from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, James and his colleagues were able to alter the DNA of Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes, which are major transmitters of the most deadly strain of malaria — Plasmodium falciparum.

A deadly strain of MRSA was born in livestock treated with antibiotics, strengthening the case for restricting the practice

New findings are of particular interest to scientists now that the latest deadly strain of flu, H7N9, is spreading in China — 82 people in China had been infected with the new strain of flu virus as of April 26, and 17 had died.

Cranberries may be the solution, by wiping out a deadly strain of gut bacteria called helicobacter pylori, which is even suspected to cause acne.

The project was closed down years ago, but Hoak has continued raising a deadly strain of the flesh - eating fish.

Wesley Snipes returns as the title character, this time he must side with vampires to try to destroy Reapers, a much deadlier strain of vampires which are immune to silver and garlic, which are destroying vampires around the Prague area, and which are multiplying at an alarming rate.

A potentially deadly strain of airborne fungus that can infect healthy people and animals, including cats and dogs, is spreading in the Pacific Northwest.

Ans: VS - FCV is a relatively new, more deadly strain of the traditional feline calicivirus, one of the two major respiratory viruses typically found in cats.

It's worth pondering this question anew, given the debate that's erupted over efforts to limit publication of details of new research producing a deadly strain of the H5N1 avian flu virus that's transmissible in ferrets, which are a research stand - in for humans.

Not exact matches

The risk to the public from the outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian bird flu in Suffolk is «negligible», environment secretary David Miliband has insisted.

Health officials hope getting the word out about the severity of this year's deadly flu strain can ultimately contain it.

The strains of H5N1 that have managed to jump species and infect people are those that are most deadly to chickens, says David Swayne, a veterinarian at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In the meantime, Canada saw an outbreak of another deadly bird flu strain — H7N3 — in September.

Strains that survive this assault, however, can evolve to defend themselves against future attacks, opening the door for deadlier versions of bacteria such as methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which killed nearly 19,000 Americans in 2005 (the last year for which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has comprehensive data).

► Last month, Science's news department reported an incident in March in which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent the U.S. Department of Agriculture a sample of low - pathogenicity H9N2 avian influenza that was contaminated by deadly H5N1 avian influenza strain.

Professor Ajit Lalvani from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, who led the study, said: «New strains of flu are continuously emerging, some of which are deadly, and so the Holy Grail is to create a universal vaccine that would be effective against all strains of flu.»

Many strains of bacteria are becoming resistant to even the strongest antibiotics, causing deadly infections and becoming a global health issue.

«We wanted to know the identity of this antibiotic and the means by which Strain 115 protects itself from its own antibiotic's deadly effects,» says Griffitts.

Many researchers hope the complete genetic code of the innocuous strain will help them understand what makes this new strain so deadly.

While those factors may apply to all Group A strep bacteria, it may be M1's ability to keep antimicrobial peptides at bay that makes strains with this version of M protein so deadly.

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.

There are currently no vaccines or drugs approved for human use and no post-exposure treatment that has completely protected nonhuman primates against MARV - Angola, the most deadly Marburg viral strain, with a mortality rate of up to 90 percent.

But Rita Colwell of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues report this week that of faecal samples taken from 81 people in November 2010, 17 had a different V. cholerae that does not make the deadly toxin made by the El Tor strain.

Because Ebola is so deadly, creating a conventional vaccine of inactivated whole virus, or a live weakened strain is thought too far too dangerous.

Even more worrisome, the molecular signature of one new strain resembles a deadly human neurological disease, sporadic Creutzfeldt - Jakob, leading to speculation that the new form of mad cow disease could spread among humans through the consumption of tainted beef.

So far, the killer virus looks like a run - of - the - mill swine flu, not an avian virus as some virologists had suspected — leaving scientists to wonder why the strain was so deadly.

Previously, Dr. Smeyne and his collaborator Dr. Stacey Schultz - Cherry in the Department of Infectious Disease at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, showed that a deadly H5N1 strain of influenza (so - called Bird Flu) that has a high mortality rate (60 percent of those infected died from the disease) was able to infect nerve cells, travel to the brain, and cause inflammation that, the researchers showed, would later result in Parkinson's - like symptoms in mice.

As for H5N1, it may prove less deadly in humans than in birds because variants of H1N1, descendants of the 1918 flu, have been circulating again since 1977 in Southeast Asia, and exposure to that N1 - bearing strain may provide some protection.

Other forms of MRSA have begun to spread outside of hospitals; one strain, known as USA300, is especially deadly.

Virologists Masato Hatta and Yoshihiro Kawaoka and their colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, decided to investigate what makes this particular strain of flu virus so deadly.

One particular strain, Zaire ebolavirus, is one of the deadliest viruses we know and fatal in up to 90 % of cases.

Kansas State University researchers developed and tested the NDV - H5Nx vaccine against H5N2, the deadliest strain, in the course of three months.

And although there is no direct evidence — like cut marks on monkey bones or monkey bones found in trash heaps — of humans hunting the monkeys for food, Cooke says that in addition to hunting, the clearing of land for farming and the introduction of invasive species can all put a deadly strain on native island populations, which are adapted to a very specific environment and have nowhere else to go.

He attributes the initial rise of AIDS and the recent outbreaks of SARS to viral strains that mixed and morphed into deadlier forms when their original wild - animal hosts came into closer contact with human butchers and hunters.

The flu incident occurred in March when a sample of a relatively benign avian flu was accidentally contaminated with a deadly influenza strain at a CDC lab before being sent out.

It turns out the strain is the victim of an attack itself — infiltrated by viruses that inserted DNA for the toxins that stoke the deadly fever.

«Hypervirulent» strain of strep outbreak identified in Arizona and the Southwest: The emm59 clone of group A Streptococcus is a deadly type of bacterial infection related to a previous outbreak in Canada.»

Technology such as high - yielding wheat varieties that tolerate drought and high temperatures, as well as resisting new or modified strains of deadly crop diseases spawned in rapidly warming environments, are the outputs from WHEAT research that lead to positive outcomes for farmers and consumers.

The letter advocates additional research including â $ œgain - of - functionâ $ experiments: identifying what changes to naturally occurring viral strains would make them more transmissible, deadly, or drug - resistant in mammals.

Following a deadly 2007 outbreak of a new strain of Ebola virus in the Bundibugyo region of Uganda, MUWRP developed a strong interest in creating a vaccine that cut across subtypes of the virus.

Many existing treatments for malaria - one of the deadliest infectious diseases - target only one stage of the complex life cycle of the Plasmodium parasite that causes the disease, and are further limited by the emergence of drug resistance in particular strains.

Prof Ajit Lalvani from the National Heart and Lung Institute, who led the study, said: «New strains of flu are continuously emerging, some of which are deadly, and so the Holy Grail is to create a universal vaccine that would be effective against all strains of flu.»

Home scientists arguably lack the tools to stumble upon a new strain of influenza or accidentally create a deadly bioweapon, but they are apt to overlook fundamental laboratory safety measures that are important even when working with seemingly benign microbes.

7/16/2007 Researchers Discover Key Mechanism to Emergence of Deadly Strep Bacteria The incidence of serious strep infections has risen dramatically in the last three decades, and this increase is largely attributed to the spread around the globe of a single strain of strep known as the invasive M1T1 clone.

Young worked with fellow researchers across the country to use phage treatment to save the life of Dr. Tom Patterson, a professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine, who while on a trip to Egypt became infected with a multi-resistant strain of Acinetobacter baumannii, a deadly pathogen.