Sentences with phrase «infection by microbes»

The vernix hydrates the skin and helps protect the baby from infection by microbes like E. coli, Group B Strep, and yeast.

Washington, DC (Scicasts)-- Infections by microbes like bacteria and fungi that don't respond to available antimicrobial treatments pose an increasingly dangerous public health threat around the world.

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By making sure desirable microbes flourish in their proper balance, the supplements will help ensure that bad ones, like the ones that cause yeast infections, can't get a toehold.

The tutorials will teach you how to recognize bacterial mastitis caused by cuts and cracks in the nipples giving a leeway for microbes to infest and attack the mammary cells and tissues leading to infection in the breasts.

Ecologically sustainable bamboo forests grown for fabric production do not require the use of pesticides or anti-fungal agents, and the fabric produced from bamboo kills 99.8 percent of germs that cause the potentially deadly Staph infection, along with many other dangerous microbes, according to a study by North Carolina State University's College of Textiles.

Microbes — good or bad — will generally enter a child's system through the mouth, pass through the throat and enter the intestines; thus, the digestive system is a baby's greatest vulnerability, by far, in terms of infections.

Listeriosis is an infection caused by microbes.

He explained why medical scientists are interested in the forces that structure our distinctive assemblies of microbes: This knowledge may show clinicians how to restore a more normal pattern in patients whose microbiome has been disrupted by illness, infection, toxins or injury.

Resistance to antibiotics by bacteria and other microbes is an ongoing public health crisis, contributing to about two million infections and 23,000 deaths per year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Chang's team addressed those limitations by making a new kind of bacterial «gun - for - hire» that can sense an infection, swim toward it and kill off the disease - causing microbes.

Researchers found 53 existing drugs that may keep the Ebola virus from entering human cells, a key step in the process of infection, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and published today in the Nature Press journal Emerging Microbes and Infections.

Louca suspects that interactions between organisms that are not directly related to metabolic function, such as infection by viruses or «chemical warfare» between microbes, may be causing this variation of species that can not be explained based on environmental conditions.

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Antibiotics have ended untold human misery by curing bacterial infections, yet we are losing these wonder drugs, Martin Blaser explains why in Missing Microbes

These chronic infections are often caused by common, environmental microbes that mutate in ways that let them live and thrive in viscous lung secretions.

Many people with Alzheimer's die of sepsis, which can be caused by infections, and he believes brain tissue samples could have been contaminated during autopsies with microbes from elsewhere in the body.

Thousands of years later, the ancient therapeutic is being embraced by some hospitals because of its ability to kill bacteria and other microbes on contact, which can help reduce deadly infections.

The problem of drug - resistant infections is terrifying but also abstract; by their nature, microbes are invisible to the naked eye, and the process by which they defy our drugs is even harder to visualise.

«When we first realized infections were caused by microbes, and that we could control that with sanitation and drugs, that was considered a great thing.

«Because microbes tune immune defence, this can be seen as a form of cooperative immunity: Sharing microbial allies and enemies makes infections by opportunist pathogens less likely,» said one of the study's authors.

In a nut shell, leaky gut syndrome (LGS) describes a condition of altered or damaged bowel lining, caused by antibiotics, toxins, poor diet, parasites or infection can lead to increased permeability of the gut wall to toxins, microbes, undigested food, waste or larger than normal macromolecules.

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Inflammation can be caused by allergies, parasites, intolerant substances, chemical pollutants, electrical and magnetic field burdens, microbes (especially hidden chronic infections) and a host of other factors.

«By documenting the miniature wildlife,» reports The Wall Street Journal, «microbiologists hope to discover new ways to track disease outbreaks — including contagious diseases like Ebola or measles — detect bioterrorism attacks and combat the growing antibiotic resistance among microbes, which causes about 1.7 million hospital infections every year.»

This infection is caused by Trichomonas vaginalis, a single - celled parasite that is actually pretty cute as far as microbes go.