Sentences with phrase «harmless bacteria»

Over the span of three weeks in 2015, more than 200,000 saiga antelope suddenly died in central Kazakhstan from hemorrhagic septicemia caused by a normally harmless bacteria called Pasteurella multocida type B. Now, scientists know what happened.

Although cats infected with FIV may appear normal for years, they eventually suffer from this immune deficiency, which allows normally harmless bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and fungi found in the everyday environment to potentially cause severe illnesses.

Dr. Mazmanian explains further that our body relies on an immune system which is capable of recognizing friend from foe, microbial invaders that might make us sick and the harmless bacteria that are always inside us which confer benefits to us.

Now I know that the benefits of probiotics are certainly no earth - shattering revelation, but it can't hurt to be reminded of the beneficial balance that probiotics create between harmful and harmless bacteria.

The harmless bacteria compete for space and nutrients with the harmful bacteria and prevent its growth.

Bladder infections are almost always caused by Escherichia coli (E. coli), a typically harmless bacteria that can be found in the small intestine.

One of the causes of Crohn's disease may be a «sensitive» immune system, which mistakes harmless bacteria for dangerous pathogens, triggering long - term inflammation and other GI symptoms.

In harmless bacteria, some of these tactics keep them alive through harsh conditions.

One of the causes of Crohn's disease may be a «sensitive» immune system, which mistakes harmless bacteria for dangerous pathogens, triggering long - term inflammation and other GI symptoms.

Injecting mosquitos with harmless bacteria keeps them from spreading the dengue - causing virus.

Taking the full course of antibiotics unnecessarily wastes medicine, and more drugs translates to increased evolutionary pressure on the harmless bacteria in our bodies.

They examined oral tolerance, a state in which the immune system is trained to remain neutral to food and harmless bacteria.

Powerful antibiotics can be dangerous in such a setting because they kill off harmless bacteria that create competition for drug - resistant colonizers, which can then proliferate.

HARMLESS bacteria from people's noses could wipe out MRSA.

The Magic School Bus crew teaches how to grow harmless bacteria and fungi, test antibiotics, use yeast to inflate a balloon, and much, much more.

The harmless bacteria compete for space and nutrients with the harmful bacteria and prevent its growth.

Now I know that the benefits of probiotics are certainly no earth - shattering revelation, but it can't hurt to be reminded of the beneficial balance that probiotics create between harmful and harmless bacteria.

We might combat such an infection by selecting or engineering a harmless bacterium that would outcompete the salmonella by using the same substrate.»

Not exact matches

To demonstrate the technique, the researchers converted nearly 90 % of the DNA of the common stomach bacterium E. coli (the harmless variety, not the kind that can make you sick) into 40,000 different guide molecules.

As luck would have it, the bacteria were of the harmless, acidifying type and were not toxin - producing organisms.

Fonterra said a product had tested positive in spring for Clostridium — the genus of bacteria which includes Clostridium botulinum, which causes botulism — but because most Clostridium strains are harmless it had had to carry out further tests to assess whether there was a risk.

Although the bacteria are harmless to adults, they can cause infant botulism in babies who are less than a year old.

This doesn't mean our honey supply is contaminated — these bacteria are harmless to adults and children over 1.

Thus, these sugars can intercept bacteria, forming harmless complexes that the baby excretes.

Typically, the bacteria is harmless.

These spores are usually harmless to adults and children over 1 year old, because the microorganisms normally found in the intestine keep the bacteria from growing.

Surprisingly, the ways that many kids can come down with a virus or contagious bacteria is thanks to interaction with seemingly harmless everyday items.

Adventurous parents should beware and be forewarned; make kids wash their hands after interacting with the seemingly harmless pit of bacteria, I mean, balls.

SHAPE SHIFTER Candida tropicalis usually grows as a harmless roundish budding yeast (green), but in the presence of two bacteria it stretches into long filaments (brown) that may provoke inflammation in intestines.

THE METHODS Yoshiaki Ohashi, a molecular biologist at the Institute for Advanced Biosciences at Keio University in Japan, chose to work with hardy Bacillus subtilis, a harmless soil bacterium that forms spores resistant to ultraviolet light, dehydration, oxygen and nutrient starvation, and organic solvents.

Mark Enright of Biocontrol Ltd, a firm in Bedfordshire, UK, that is developing ways to pit harmless microbes against infectious ones, favours using the live bacteria over the enzyme.

The most common family of bacteria found on the skin is Staphylococcus, the members of which are often harmless, unless they get into wounds.

The idea is that routine exposure to harmless microorganisms in the environment — soil bacteria, for instance — trains our immune systems to ignore benign molecules like pollen or the dandruff on a neighbor's dog.

In most people, the bacteria in the digestive tract are harmless.

B. subtilis is harmless to humans, but some dangerous bacteria like Bacillus anthracis, the organism that causes anthrax, also form spores by a similar mechanism.

«Even though Caulobacter is a harmless environmental bacterium, our findings are highly relevant for the understanding of infectious diseases.

The resistance is harmless as long as the bacteria remain confined to their normal habitat.

These types of allergies occur when the body's immune system mistakes a harmless food protein for a threat and attacks it as it would normally do with a bacterium or a virus.

Enterobacteriaceae are a family of bacteria; some types are harmless, but they also include such pathogens as Salmonella and Escherichia coli; Enterobacteriaceae are responsible for a rising proportion of serious bacterial infections in children.

But in the region controlling the production of sugars found in the bacterium's cell walls, they found a stretch of DNA from a normally harmless strain (EMBO Journal, vol 14, p 209).

Three types of colon cancer cells grew faster, producing about 50 to 60 percent more cells within 24 hours, with the bacteria than they did when cultured with no bacteria or with a harmless, milk - fermenting bacterium called Lactococcus lactis.

Dutch researchers say the new strain arose when the bacterium that usually causes cholera borrowed genes from a normally harmless strain.

While news reports often focus on the dangers of E. coli, most types of this bacteria are actually harmless, including those used by Pfeifer's team in the lab.

The notorious bacteria E. coli is best known for making people sick, but scientists have reprogrammed the microbe — which also comes in harmless varieties — to make it seek out and fight other disease - causing pathogens.

Mice given peanut butter laced with a common, harmless soil bacterium ran through mazes twice as fast and enjoyed doing so.

While normally harmless in healthy people, the C. difficile bacteria can be fatal when the natural bacteria of the gut are disrupted from antibiotic use.

Fresh tap water is teeming with harmless microbial life, and water that sits for a few days inside pipes can contain millions of bacteria.

They found some 4600 tentative genes, many of which are identical to and in the same order along the chromosome as those of a common, typically harmless gut bacterium, Escherichia coli — a close relative.

The exciting thing is that RNase E is found in many pathogenic bacteria as well as the harmless strain of E. coli we study in the lab.»

This cripples the immune system, making the patient vulnerable to common bacteria, viruses and other pathogens that are usually harmless in people with healthy immune systems.