Sentences with phrase «human gut bugs»

Researchers have found human gut bugs such as Escherichia coli in ape droppings — not surprising, as these bacteria persist in the environment, where eco-tourists with diarrhoea deposit them.

Dennis Kasper at Harvard Medical School and his colleagues found that mice inoculated with Bacteroides fragilis — a human gut bug that produces a molecule called PSA — were able to fend off colitis provoked by the pathogenic bacterium Helicobacter hepaticus.

Not exact matches

The scientists will have to demonstrate that a vaccine can block UTI - causing E. coli in humans while sparing another colony of E. coli: the beneficial intestinal flora that prevent disease - producing bugs from proliferating in the gut.

Moeller found that two of three major families of gut bacteria in apes and humans trace their origins to a common ancestor more than 15 million years ago, not primarily to bugs picked up from their environment.

A valuable result of this work, they both agree, is that it sets up a way to test the effects of microbial therapies on human gut bacteria (even though the bugs are living in a mouse).

The bugs in human guts are a hot topic these days.