Sentences with phrase «identify tuberculosis bacteria»
They have also used an LED and fluorescent dye to identify tuberculosis bacteria in sputum samples.
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Particularly striking is the mortality trend line for tuberculosis, which falls precipitously from 1838 onward — decades before the bacterium responsible for the disease was identified (1882), and long before the advent of the first effective antibiotic therapy, streptomycin.
A Johnson & Johnson research team identified a new compound known as R207910 that kills the M. tuberculosis bacterium by inhibiting the cell's energy - producing machinery.
To learn how Mycobacterium tuberculosis mounts a defense against a drug, Baliga is first looking within the bacterium, identifying the genes, proteins and other molecules that interact as the microbe infects a host.
The team identified 26 compounds that were active against replicating tuberculosis bacteria, 19 killed dormant bacteria including seven that were active against both.
«Scientists identify protein central to immune response against tuberculosis bacteria.»