Sentences with phrase «lungs of cystic fibrosis patients»

Bacteria can stick together to form slimy sheets called biofilms that yellow people's teeth, line the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients and often resist antibiotics.

That raises the possibility of using them to treat infections caused by biofilms, such as the Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections that often affect the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients.

Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa commonly co-infect wounds, catheters and lungs of cystic fibrosis patients.

Substances produced by a harmful bacterium in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients may enhance the growth of other bacteria that, in turn, inhibit the harmful bacterium's biofilm, according to new research.

Substances produced by a harmful bacterium in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients may enhance the growth of other bacteria that, in turn, inhibit the harmful bacterium's biofilm, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens.

These findings suggest a potential mechanism by which S. parasanguinis, which is normally found on the surface of teeth, might colonize the lungs of a cystic fibrosis patient and inhibit P. aeruginosa.

To make these cracks, the researchers turned to Pseudomonas aeruginosa — a bacterial species that often builds biofilms within the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients, which can lead to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and subsequently death.

How do microbes duke it out in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients?

The first of many probable applications will likely be the chronic bacterial infections in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients «that frequently develop resistance to all standard antibiotics, and are the leading cause of death in these patients,» says senior author Ronald Montelaro.

In the past, researchers studied Pseudomonas in isolation despite the fact that it's rarely the lone bacterium in the lungs of people with CF. Hoffman decided to study how Pseudomonas and Staphylococcus aureus — the other bacterium most commonly found in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients — behave when the two are grown together.

We also sequenced several members of the Burkholderia cenocepacia complex that are important pathogens in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients.