Sentences with phrase «resistant infections in humans»

As you can see from the infographic above, which is included in the report, the use of antibiotics in farm animals leads to an increased risk of antibiotic resistant infections in humans.

A clinical trial to evaluate whether the ointment can treat antibiotic resistant infections in human patients is scheduled for 2018.

Not exact matches

What's more, an ointment containing the peptide effectively treated wounds infected with methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and the increasingly common hospital infection bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii in mice and on laboratory samples of human skin.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is usually harmless to humans, but in people with cystic fibrosis (CF) or who have weakened immune systems — such as those who have had an operation or treatment for cancer — it can cause infections that are resistant to antibiotics.

ST258 K. pneumoniae is the predominant cause of human infections among bacteria classified as carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), which kill approximately 600 people annually in the United States and sicken thousands more.

Or perhaps the answer lies in the interplay between the immune system and human genetic variability: Studies have highlighted genes that strongly influence who is most susceptible — and who is most resistant — to HIV infection and disease.

To explore the health consequences of bacterial quorum sensing in the crypts, the researchers experimented with an antagonist to turn off quorum sensing in chambers colonized by methicillin - resistant S. aureus (MRSA), an antibiotic - resistant strain of bacteria that causes human infection.

Chinese researchers report this week that they have used the CRISPR gene - editing technique to modify the genome of a human embryo in an effort to make it resistant to HIV infection.

Researchers in China have reported editing the genes of human embryos to try to make them resistant to HIV infection.

Because mice with intact immune systems are resistant to S. stercoralis infection, the researchers began with an immunocompromised strain of mice, and then exposed some to a synthetic steroid called methylprednisolone (MPA) that is commonly used to treat asthma in humans.

Researchers in China have edited the genes of human embryos to make cells resistant to HIV infection.

In this study we describe the design and pre-clinical evaluation of a CXCR4 - specific ZFN pair (X4 - ZFNs) that specifically and efficiently disrupts cxcr4, rendering human CD4 + T cells permanently resistant to HIV - 1 strains that require CXCR4 for infection.

Our studies provide a fundamental demonstration that inactivation of cxcr4 by treatment with X4 - ZFNs rendered human CD4 + T cells resistant to infection by X4 virus strains, while CXCR4 inactivation in the context of a ccr5Δ32 homozygous background rendered cells resistant to infection by both R5 and R5X4 strains.

This concern was also brought to the forefront of the scientific and public consciousness when a report by Chinese scientists described the use of CRISPR - Cas to modify a gene in human embryos making them resistant to HIV infection [to learn more about CRISPR - Cas, read our previous blog].

In the resistant infections, the communication system used by MRSA bacteria to «talk» among each other is silenced, and with it the ability to release toxins that damage human cells.

Infection with resistant organisms can lead to longer and more severe infections, increased mortality, and higher costs for treatment.1, 2 The growing threat of AMR has contributed to an increased scrutiny of antibiotic use practices in both human and veterinary medicine (FIGURE 1).

Adult humans usually are resistant to infection unless there is a break in the skin (such as a scratch), but children are quite susceptible.

Natural resistance Healthy humans, cats, and other species are by nature quite resistant to infection - so resistant, in fact, that if a person becomes infected with the fungus, it always heralds the need to look for some underlying disorder of the immune system (such as AIDS and certain forms of cancer).

Healthy adult humans are usually resistant to infection unless there is a break in the skin such as a scratch.

Chalk up yet another reason to oppose factory farming: BBC News reports that scientists from the University of Hong Kong have found evidence that overuse of antibiotics on farm animals is leading to an increase in antibiotic - resistant human urinary tract infections.