Sentences with phrase «study mycobacterium»

Eric J. Rubin, M.D., Ph.D., of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and E. Hesper Rego, Ph.D., of Yale University School of Medicine, and their coworkers first studied Mycobacterium smegmatis, a close relative of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the microbe that causes TB.

Not exact matches

Two of these enzymes are already being studies as potential drug targets; one against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and another against another type of worm.

The study, «The efficacy of the BCG vaccine against newly emerging clinical strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis,» was published in the journal PLOS One in September.

Taking this «hygiene hypothesis» in an even more surprising direction, recent studies indicate that treatment with a specific soil bacterium, Mycobacterium vaccae, may be able to alleviate depression.

The new study suggests that through Distributive Conjugal Transfer, mycobacteria have found a way to reap the benefits of genomic mixing without the dependence and energy costs associated with sexual reproduction.

In the study, the investigators treated Mycobacterium tuberculosis - infected mice with anti-tuberculosis drugs or vitamin C alone, or the drugs and vitamin C together.

The study began by taking the medical history of 11 children, all of whom had a disorder due to mycobacteria infections, as the basis.

«What we saw in mice lacking STIM1 — whose T - cells can not generate calcium signals — is that the number of mycobacteria in their lungs was dramatically increased, resulting in excessive inflammation,» says Stefan Feske, MD, an associate professor of pathology at NYU Langone and the study's senior author.

One previous study found that 17.8 % of drug resistant TB among humans in Morocco was due to M. bovis rather than the classic Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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 Otago researchers» studies on hydrogen fermentation in mycobacteria have been performed in collaboration with Professor William Jacobs Jr., a world - leading bacterial geneticist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, who is known as the «TB terminator».

In a previous study, Aldridge and her colleagues demonstrated that mycobacteria divide asymmetrically — despite being genetically identical, one of the two daughter cells will usually be longer and faster growing than its twin.

«Individual mycobacteria respond differently to antibiotics based on growth and timing: New study identifies differences between subpopulations of mycobacteria with variable antibiotic susceptibilities.»

The study, «The efficacy of the BCG vaccine against newly emerging clinical strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis,» was published in September.

She is registred to the National Order of Biologists in the province of Palermo; collaboration in research project from 2012 to 2015 at the Department of Biopathology and Biotechnology, University of Palermo, focusing the study on the identification of molecules capable to modulate intracellular metabolic pathways for the prevention and treatment of infectious, tumor and degenerative disease, in collaboration with Prof. Angela Santoni, University of Rome; collaboration in research project in 2011 at the hospital «Villa Sofia Cervello» of Palermo to study methods can cure the genetic defect that causes thalassemia through genetic engineering; she studies different mechanisms of the differentiation and the activation of human gammadelta T cells as effector cells of the immune response against cancer and infectious diseases; she investigates about the identification and development of biomarkers of resistance and susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection; Valentina Orlando has published 13 papers in peer reviewed journals and 3 comunications at national and international congress.

Her studies there focused on investigating host - pathogen interactions between Mycobacterium tuberculosisand pulmonary immune cells during the early stages of infection.

David came to the Northwest and performed his postdoctoral studies under David Sherman at the University of Washington, where he learned the ins - and - outs of Mycobacterium tuberculosisbiology and pathogenesis.

The Department of Microbiology of the Yonsei University College of Medicine, is investigating on identification and functional study of virulence determinants in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by comparative genome - based analysis.

Studies have shown that autophagy may help remove infectious microbes such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and viruses such as HIV.

The recent study on the anti-anxiety effects of the soil microorganism Mycobacterium vaccae in animals [93] suggests that we would do well to broaden our considerations of the classically defined beneficial microbes, that is, beyond that of exclusively the Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria genera.

«Our study has provided basic evidence that curcumin protects against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in human cells,» said Dr. Xiyuan Bai, lead author of the study.

http://www.gutpathogens.com/content/2/1/21 The attached study makes a very convincing argument that ulcerative colitis and crohn's disease are caused by exposure to mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (map) directly from the milk of or feces (from runoff) of infected cows.

Modern studies have found that the antibacterial properties of garlic are effective on salmonella, staph infections, clostridium (the cause of botulism), proteus, mycobacterium, and H. pylori.

The University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine is conducting a study of a type of tuberculosis in Basset Hounds known as Systemic Avian Tuberculosis or Mycobacterium Avian Complex, or MAC.