Sentences with phrase «potentially deadly bacteria»

The Medical University of South Carolina recently announced as many as 3,000 patients may be at risk of infection after learning medical equipment used in open heart surgeries since 2012 tested positive for potentially deadly bacteria.

Cook thoroughly before feeding it to your dog.Raw shrimp can contain the potentially deadly bacteria Clostridium botulinum type C, along with other potentially dangerous pathogens.

Raw shrimp can contain the potentially deadly bacteria Clostridium botulinum type C, along with other potentially dangerous pathogens.

A Seattle suburb was making progress cleansing its E. coli - contaminated water supply through system - wide flushes and chlorine injections, a task made more urgent after the potentially deadly bacteria sickened a child, officials said on Tuesday.

Over the course of 22 days, powderized anthrax — a potentially deadly bacterium — was mailed to U.S. Senate offices in Washington, D.C., and to media outlets in New York and Florida.

Not exact matches

But retailers from large supermarket chains to small grocers are not required to keep eggs in cold storage, even though research shows it could help stop the spread of potentially deadly salmonella bacteria.

Honey is a known source that contains spores of a bacterium called Clostridium Botulinum which can develop in a baby's digestive system, causing this rare but potentially deadly illness.

At the time the ban was enacted, poultry had become a prominent source of fluoroquinolone - resistant Campylobacter bacteria, which undercut doctors» ability to treat potentially deadly foodborne disease.

By increasing the pH of the stomach, PPIs also boost the risk of infection: studies published in JAMA in 2004 and 2005 reported that subjects on acid - suppressing drugs are nearly twice as likely to develop pneumonia, and nearly three times as likely to acquire a potentially deadly infection from the bacterium Clostridium difficile, as unmedicated subjects (although the overall risk is low).

Stool from a healthy person, recent findings show, can cure nine out of ten chronic cases of potentially deadly colitis caused by the intestinal bacterium Clostridium difficile.

Streptococcus pyogenes, a spherical bacteria that typically grows in long chains, can cause minor infections like impetigo to potentially deadly diseases like streptococcal toxic shock syndrome.

Anthrax, for example, can be inactivated via established protocols such as boiling for 10 minutes or treating it with certain chemicals, yet federal employees failed to follow any of the approved protocols to kill the deadly bacteria before sending out anthrax samples in June, potentially endangering scores of federal employees.

Bacillus anthracis bacteria have very efficient machinery for injecting toxic proteins into cells, leading to the potentially deadly infection known as anthrax.

The bacteria make nisin as a poisonous defense against other bacteria, including those that cause two potentially deadly foodborne illnesses in people: botulism and listeria.

Case in point is the ongoing federal effort to encourage hospitals and other providers to protect patients from potentially deadly infections from antibiotic - resistant bacteria.

In fact, «both MRSA, a potentially deadly staphylococcus bacteria, and rhinoviruses, the cause of the common cold, have been detected on gym equipment,» says Charles Gerba, PhD, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona.

Many common disease - causing microbes as well as potentially deadly ones like HIV and drug - resistant bacteria are vulnerable to MCTs.21 - 22 This aspect of MCTs is extensively researched.

After discovering that tight end Daniel Fells has MRSA, a serious skin infection, the New York Giants are scrubbing down their facilities as a precaution against the extremely contagious, and potentially deadly, bacteria.

Vaccine protection against highly contagious and potentially deadly viruses and bacteria will mean less risk of dogs getting sick.

Some of these bacteria, such as Salmonella, Listeria and E. Coli can be harmful to health and potentially deadly for young children and the elderly.