Sentences with phrase «how bacterial populations»

The team wanted to know how the bacterial populations in the gut change when exposed to the medicinal herbs.

With this new understanding of how bacterial populations evolve survival strategies against antibiotics, scientists could develop new approaches for slowing the evolution of antibiotic resistance.

«We sort of had a nightmare scenario and an intentionally high concentration in order to better understand how the bacterial population would respond,» Smith says.

Not exact matches

If a bacterial population can become antibiotic - resistant even when only a small number of individuals have the appropriate genetic mutations, doctors who collect and analyze small bacterial specimens from patients may underestimate just how resistant the infection is as a whole, Collins notes.

Flavell warned that more research is necessary to learn how many bacterial species fall into the «bad» category and whether those populations are common to all IBD patients or are unique to each patient.

Based on these observations, the researchers developed a mathematical model to identify how this biased partitioning of the drug pump affects the bacterial population.

This provides new opportunities related to the study of how the heterogeneities that appear at lower levels of the functional hierarchy, for example at the level of bacterial populations, eventually end up in the same chemical pattern that is specific to different diseases.

Sequencing can quantify how populations of specific bacterial strains vary under given experimental conditions, allowing the investigators to look for connections with disorders in the mice.

We then examined how parasitic infection reduced the hindgut bacterial population.

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They are currently undertaking a study that aims to explore differences in intestinal bacterial populations among epileptic dogs and healthy housemates, and evaluate how antiepileptic drugs affect the growth rates of intestinal bacteria.