A new study by Waldemar Gorski, professor and chair of the UTSA Department of Chemistry, and Stanton McHardy, associate professor
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Colistin-resistant multidrug-resistant bacteria pervasive in rural Vietnam town
A new study has found that the majority of residents in a rural village of Vietnam harbored multi-drug-resistant (MDR), colistin-resistant
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Gut bacteria control cancer immunity in the liver
Working with mouse models, they found that gut bacteria can regulate the liver’s immune response to both primary and metastatic
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Advance genetics study identifies virulent strain of TB
LSTM’s Dr Maxine Caws is co-lead investigator on an advanced genetics study published in Nature Genetics(link is external), which has
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Multi-drug resistant infections rising in children: An increase in hospital-acquired infections are on the rise among US children
Antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections, one of the most common hospital-acquired infections in children across the United States, are on the
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For 'Flesh-Eating' Bacteria, Your Agonizing Pain Is Their Pleasure
Bacteria that "eat" your flesh are also hijacking your pain receptors for their own benefit. The microbe Streptococcus pyogenes causes
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Machine learning flags emerging pathogens: A new machine learning tool could flag dangerous bacteria before they cause an outbreak, from hospital wards to a global scale
A new machine learning tool that can detect whether emerging strains of the bacterium, Salmonella are more likely to cause
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What does ape poop tell us about human health? Study finds out
What does ape dung tell us about human health? Gut bacteria in primates’ faeces suggests we are deficient in fibre
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A gut bacterium’s guide to building a microbiome: Unlike invading pathogens, which are attacked by the immune system, certain good bacteria in the gut invite an immune response in order to establish robust gut colonization
The mammalian gut is warm, moist, and incredibly nutrient-rich — an environment that is perfect for bacterial growth. The communities
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Bacterial toxins wreak havoc by crippling cellular infrastructure: Study could lead to better tactics to fight antibiotic-resistant bugs, researchers say
Bacterial toxins can wreak mass havoc within cells by shutting down multiple essential functions at once, a new study has
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