Bacteria Articles page 2

Chicago Tribune - Dozens of children were sickened by the resistant bacteria without having contact with hospitals -- an unprecedented outbreak. "We just looked at each other and said, 'What's going on here?'" said Daum, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the ...

BusinessWeek - Cargill said on Oct. 5 that it's recalling nearly 850,000 pounds of frozen hamburger patties because they may have been contaminated with E. coli bacteria. The recall came a day after Topps Meat shut down, overwhelmed by the costs of taking back ...

Courier-Post - Canker and greening bacteria have forced farmers into tedious and expensive procedures to decontaminate workers and find infected trees. Canker, which makes fruit unusable, is spread by the wind and contaminated clothes and equipment. The disease ...

Wired News - The slimes he's referring to are known as biofilms, which are three-dimensional colonies of bacteria that secrete a starchy covering that protects the tiny creatures from predators, UV radiation and antibiotics. If scientists could weave them into ...

San Diego Union-Tribune - Tuberculosis is caused by airborne bacteria that attack the lungs and can be fatal. People with latent tuberculosis do not feel sick and present no symptoms, but are at risk of contracting the full disease, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Scotsman - EXPERTS stress that it is important to prepare food safely to help stop harmful bacteria from spreading and growing. Before starting to prepare salad vegetables, hands should be washed thoroughly with soap and warm water. The surfaces they are ...

Guardian Unlimited - Further from development but equally plausible are bacteria that could mop up oil spills or extract heavy metal contamination from soil. The most tantalising possibilities might offer help with climate change: bacteria that could break down cellulose ...

Seattle Times - But nothing beats a wooden toothpick, according to Petroski, not only because it softens in the mouth but because of its natural bacteria-killing organisms. Let aristocrats torture their gums with germ-laden, unyielding implements! Common folk in the ...

Medical News Today - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded an interdisciplinary team of five Stevens Institute of Technology researchers a four-year, $1 million grant to develop "smart," self-assembling nano-biomaterials that can control whether bacteria will ...

Baltimore Sun - As parents phoned school officials with worries about staph infections, Maryland lawmakers and health officials pledged renewed efforts yesterday to rid hospitals of drug-resistant bacteria that might be causing up to 19,000 deaths a year nationwide ...