Sentences with phrase «resistance genes in»

Nevertheless, it does provide excellent sensitivity for identifying multi-drug resistance genes in canines which can help identify more effective treatments should the pet have an infection or any other health condition that requires medication.

Taken together, our data shows that exposure to effluent contaminated with antibiotics promote resistance genes in environmental bacterial communities.

The advent of rice varieties bearing genes with resistance to the disease has changed the perception about the disease: the incorporation of host - plant resistance genes in rice varieties, their adoption and deployment in the world's main rice - producing environments is probably one of the most significant evidences of the role of plant pathology in agricultural development.

In one case, the CDC network helped diagnose bacteria carrying resistance genes in an Iowa nursing home resident with a urinary tract infection.

Expert scientific opinion has repeatedly reaffirmed that the presence of antibiotic resistance genes in GM foods is unable to change the level of antibiotic resistance present in gut bacteria (Bennett PM and others 2004, EFSA 2004, Salyers A (n.d.), van den Eede and others 2004).

There is a huge reservoir of ampicillin resistance genes in soil and these can be readily transmitted to gut bacteria.

An assessment of the risks associated with the use of antibiotic resistance genes in genetically modified plants: report of the Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

The paper describes various challenges arising from the process of designing a benchmark strategy for bioinformatics pipelines (2) in the identification of antimicrobial resistance genes in next generation sequencing data.

PAHs accelerate the propagation of antibiotic resistance genes in coastal water microbial community.

** A reservoir of «historical» antibiotic resistance genes in remote pristine Antarctic soils.

«This means disease - causing bacteria in chickens are at risk of sickening humans and transferring their resistance genes in the process.

Researchers proved its utility by successfully mapping the multi-drug resistance genes in a strain called Salmonella Typhi haplotype H58 — which has recently emerged globally.

As well as Zika virus, the team has also used SHERLOCK to detect antibiotic resistance genes in Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria, and health - related gene variants in human saliva (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.aam9321).

As well as Zika virus, the team has also used SHERLOCK to detect antibiotic resistance genes in Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria, and health - related gene variants in human saliva.

New Danish research has now revealed that the most common resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants are not to be found among bacteria outside these facilities — in people or animals, for example.

That background makes it important to characterize «both the natural occurrence of the antibiotic - resistance genes and the anthropogenic load, and where those genes come from, and it's good to do it in a quantitative way,» as Pruden's team did for the South Platte, says Joakim Larsson of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, who has tracked antibiotics and resistance genes in India and Sweden.

The presence of antimicrobial resistance genes in 1000 - year - old Incan remains suggest resistance was common hundreds of years before we discovered penicillin

While Wright was not surprised that the bug would carry such genes as antidotes to its own weaponry, he was startled to see that the antidote genes were nearly identical to the resistance genes in vancomycin - resistant enterococcus (VRE), the scourge of American and European hospitals.

No doctor wants to ignore an opportunity to save a patient from infectious disease, yet much of what is prescribed is probably unnecessary — and all of it feeds the spread of resistance genes in hospitals and apparently throughout the environment.

Specifically, they have found unnaturally high levels of antibiotic resistance genes in sediments where the river comes into contact with treated municipal wastewater effluent and farm irrigation runoff as it flows 126 miles from Rocky Mountain National Park through Fort Collins and across Colorado's eastern plain, home to some of the country's most densely packed livestock operations.

«Understanding disease resistance genes in crops to secure future food production.»

The advent of rice varieties bearing genes with resistance to the disease has changed the perception about the disease: the incorporation of host - plant resistance genes in rice varieties, their adoption and deployment in the world's main rice - producing environments is probably one of the most significant evidences of the role of plant pathology in agricultural development.

Researchers now have the tools to identify resistance genes in wild bananas or other plant species.

The leader peptides regulate the expression of the downstream resistance gene in response to the presence of the drug.

In one instance, he made the memory especially easy to read by engineering the cells to mutate an antibiotic resistance gene in response to light.

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I won't reveal yet who my favorites are, but I will say that these young scientist - founders came up with very creative solutions for preventing infections in some common surgeries, tackling resistance in targeted antibody drugs, improving gene vectors for cell therapies, helping the vision - impaired «see» faces and better read their environments, imaging hard - to - see spots in the lungs and other organs, improving genetic risk analysis, and expediting the logistical operations of hospitals.

Scientists could search within them for resistance genes and other desirable traits to use in engineering and breeding programs.

New research suggests it may be possible to restore susceptibility to antibiotics in superbugs by locating and inactivating genes that promote resistance.

In terms of biodiversity, organic farming takes into account gene adaptation, local ecosystems and species to improve disease resistance, soil, gene pools and local wildlife habitats.

In particular, the PTPRF gene, which is known to suppress intracellular signals that are usually triggered by insulin binding to its receptor on the cell surface, may serve as a biomarker linking insulin resistance with insufficient milk supply.

Mice trapped in New York City apartment buildings harbored disease - causing bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes.

This gives a comprehensive understanding of how several important treatments work against worms and begins to unravel why resistance has occurred in these genes.

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire, added: «This new understanding of plant defense through ETD suggests different operations of specific resistance genes which will help us to be more successful in breeding new strains of crops for resistance.

But they lost some things in the process, like genes for disease resistance that still occur in wild peanut ancestors.

«We're also looking at as many genes as possible in the wild banana and screening them to identify other resistance genes, not only for resistance to TR4 but to other diseases.»

Researchers found RGA2 gene activity level in the modified bananas was «strongly correlated» with TR4 resistance

In doing so the researchers stumbled upon three resistance genes embedded in the DNA that Streptomyces toyocaensis uses to produce the antibiotic teicoplaniIn doing so the researchers stumbled upon three resistance genes embedded in the DNA that Streptomyces toyocaensis uses to produce the antibiotic teicoplaniin the DNA that Streptomyces toyocaensis uses to produce the antibiotic teicoplanin.

These adaptations include the massive and rapid expansion of gene families that produce venom toxins, providing the snake with a highly toxic protein mixture required to overcome a variety of different prey and also circumvent any resistance to venom that may have developed in such prey.

One of the newest banes of U.S. medical centers, a supervirulent and multidrug - resistant strain of Acinetobacter baumannii, likewise appears to have picked up most of its resistance in gene swaps with other species.

In fact, sewage treatment methods used at the country's 18,000 - odd wastewater plants could actually affect the resistance genes that enter their systems.

Cultivated potatoes possess around 750 resistance genes but in most varieties, late blight is able to elude them.

The scientists also generated a panel of (reconstructed) ancestral and existing TRIM5 genes (19 total), expressed them in cultured cell lines, and exposed the cells to 16 different retroviruses (lentiviruses and others) to see which TRIM5 versions conferred resistance to which viruses.

Bacteria make up about one - third of the solid matter in human stool, and Scott Weber, of the State University of New York at Buffalo, studies what happens to the antibiotic resistance genes our nation flushes down its toilets.

Such resistance genes are rare to nonexistent in specimens of human tissue and body fluid taken 60 years ago, before the use of antibiotics became widespread.

Over the past 60 years, genes for antibiotic resistance have gone from rare to commonplace in the microbes that routinely infect our bodies.

He had noted subtle variations between the resistance genes he pulled out of soil organisms and their doppelgängers in disease - causing bacteria.

«We're now in an age where we can pretty easily figure out what genes control those differences,» von Wettberg says, keeping the qualities that mechanized farming requires, «while adding in resistance to drought, disease, and pests.»

The more diverse the genes of the MHC, the more effective it is at conferring disease resistance, and in a variety of animals individuals with diverse MHCs are more likely to be chosen as a sexual partner.

The answer is important because sludge bacteria are much more likely to thrive and spread their resistance genes once the sludge is discharged into rivers (in treated wastewater) and onto crop fields (as slurried fertilizer).

When the team induced expression of the corresponding gene in the leaves of two other plant species (one closely related to S. lycopersicum and the other more distantly related), both plants reacted to presence of the C. reflexa peptide with increased production of ethylene, and exhibited increased resistance to C. reflexa infestation.