“Microplastics are like rafts — a bacteria on its own might not be able to swim down a river, but riding in its biofilm on a tiny bit of plastic it can be disseminated into many different ...

ORRINGTON, Maine (WABI) - Five months after fire broke out at EPEC in Orrington, the town and facility are ready to rise from the ashes. “I got the call, and I came in and the fire was through ...

coli bacteria. Image via Public Domain Scientists from Finland and Norway have recently discovered two promising antivirulence compounds that could help combat Escherichia coli (EPEC) infections.

Enteropathogenic bacteria triggering reactive arthritis (ReA ... Besides EAEC, we also covered, using the multiplex qPCR assay, EPEC, ETEC, EIEC and EHEC. First, as we could not collect stool samples ...

Pseudomonas is a genus of gram-negative bacteria. It belongs to the family Pseudomonadaceae and is in the class Gammaproteobacteria. Not all strains of this type of bacteria cause infection, but some ...

Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don't stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into critical nutrients that build proteins, create energy and keep the cells ...

Depending on the disease-causing germ, an infectious disease can be spread through some or all of the following ways: Antibiotic medicines are used to treat bacterial infections. Antibiotics don't ...

Understanding the world within: Study reveals new insights into phage--bacteria interactions in the gut microbiome Date: February 25, 2025 Source: Baylor College of Medicine Summary: Researchers ...

There's an arms race in medicine -- scientists design drugs to treat lethal bacterial infections, but bacteria can evolve defenses to those drugs, sending the researchers back to square one.

A study by Padma Shri awardee Dr. Ajay Sonkar has claimed the Ganga’s self-cleaning mechanism eliminates bacteria 50 times faster than other rivers. While experts dispute this, the BJP and the ...