Sentences with phrase «like mycobacterium»

She is completing her postdoctoral training at IDRI and is excited to use her background in adaptive immunity to help optimize vaccine strategies for pathogens like Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

The innate system — via stem cells in the bone marrow — mobilizes macrophages, which are a type of white blood cell that swallows and kills invading bacteria like Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) that causes TB.

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But a distressing number of showerheads contained significant loads of Mycobacterium avium, a bacterium that can cause nontuberculous mycobacteria disease, or NTM, a pulmonary infection that can feel like an unshakable flu.

The microbiome study found an abundant population of bacteria that the researchers believe are novel «Mycobacterium - like» species not described previously, closely related to Mycobacterium rhodesiae and Mycobacterium tusciae.

The results showed that the mycobacterium decides where to direct isocitrate by using a mechanism that is not like a simple on - off switch.

Since current phagehunting procedures of Mycobacterium phages all use identical plating conditions, we would like to explore alternative phagehunting procedures to determine if that affects the type of phages isolated.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains the leading bacterial cause of death globally because, like other successful pathogens (e.g. HIV), it goes beyond evasion to take over functions of immune cells.

Moreover, oral Mycobacterium vaccae, a soil - based microorganism widely distributed in nature, which can easily find its way onto edible plants, has been shown in experimental models to improve cognitive function and diminish anxiety - like behavior among animals [93].