Sentences with phrase «for microbial pathogens»

Part of the problem is the lack of resources we ourselves direct to food from abroad: The FDA has a minuscule team of some 1,500 inspectors devoted to food imports, a workforce too small to screen more than a tiny fraction of the food that arrives at U.S. ports each year for microbial pathogens or other disease - causing contaminants.

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According to the Organic Farming Research Foundation, «Organic standards set strict guidelines on manure use in organic farming: either it must be first composted, or it must be applied at least 90 days before harvest, which allows ample time for microbial breakdown of pathogens.»

She stayed in Boston to take her current position at Harvard Medical School, where today she maintains a lab for her research on mucosal immunology and host defenses against microbial pathogens.

Globalization, changing climate, and the threat of drug resistance have conspired to set the stage for that perfect microbial storm: a situation in which an emerging pathogen — another HIV or smallpox, perhaps — might burst on the scene and kill millions before we can respond.

Klebsiella pneumoniae is usually a normal resident in the mouth of healthy individuals, but as demonstrated in an experiment on specific pathogen - free mice treated and untreated with the antibiotic ampicillin, they can colonize in the gut and activate TH1 cells when antibiotics disturb the gut microbial balance and weaken tolerance for the colonization of oral bacteria reaching the intestine.

Our study suggests that the ability to undergo unisexual reproduction may be an evolutionary strategy for eukaryotic microbial pathogens, enabling de novo genotypic and phenotypic plasticity and facilitating rapid adaptation to novel environments.

Dr. Ling is chair of the Microbial Pathogenesis and Cancer (MPC) study section for the American Cancer Society and Associate Editor for the journal PLOS Pathogens.

These results stress the role of the environmental microbial communities, in combination with unintentional antibiotic release, as potential recruitment pools for human pathogens.

Boiling water for a few minutes kills most bacteria, amoebas, and other microbial pathogens.

Systemic toxicity — a side effect of extreme disruption of microbial function throughout your body; beneficial microbes in particular, allowing for overgrowth of pathogens

Dr. Brady worked with Diagnostic Solutions Laboratory to develop and launch the first DNA / PCR molecular assay for GI pathogens performed on stool using an FDA - approved platform and methodology, the GI Microbial Assay Plus (GI - MAP).