Bacteria Articles

Baltimore Sun - Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria are far more widespread than scientists previously thought and might be killing more than 19,000 people a year in the United States, according to a study published today. Of the nine sites that ...

MSNBC - Bacteria and the drugs we deploy to kill them have been locked in an arms race since penicillin, the first mass-produced antibiotic, was first given to a patient in 1941. The first penicillin-resistant organism was found only one year later. Now a ...

CNN - NEW YORK (CNN) -- Students at a high school in Virginia prepared Thursday for the funeral of a popular classmate, the victim of a deadly drug-resistant strain of bacteria that has turned up in schools across the country recently. School bus driver ...

Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Contrary to conventional wisdom, the appendix may not be useless after all. New research suggests that the structure helps beneficial bacteria survive and repopulate the colon after these organisms become depleted as a ...

Newsday - Bacteria, scientists say, become resistant through a variety of mechanisms: Gene swapping between microbes in the environment is one way. Bolder, highly infectious strains exchange genes with milder ones, creating a new superbug in the process. But ...

Baltimore Sun - Pneumonia is an infection of the respiratory tract and the lungs and is usually caused by bacteria, but also can be caused by atypical pathogens (anything from TB to fungus) and viruses. The kind of pneumonia you hear people talking about is usually ...

Daily Telegraph - They slowly damp-mopped about half the ward floor while visitors came in with fresh bacteria on their shoes. I am a doctor, I know enough about the spread of bacteria to see that disposable overshoes might be a good idea. Why don't the staff all wear ...

Times of India - We have plenty of vaccines against viruses and bacteria but this would be the first vaccine against a parasitic infection in humans," Joe Cohen, a GlaxoSmithKline scientist who has spent 20 years on the project, said. The scientists are now ...

Newsday - A Brooklyn middle school student has died after contracting an infection caused by an antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria, the city's Health Department said Thursday. The boy was identified by a classmate and in media reports as seventh-grader ...

Washington Post - Millions of Americans routinely carry staph bacteria on their skin or in their nasal passages and have no problems. And many infections are relatively mild, with the body successfully fighting the germ. But this virulent strain of the microbe can ...