Bacterial vaginosis, or BV, is currently viewed as a woman’s issue, thus leaving the sexual partner untreated. “I started getting them quite recurrently. I’d go to doctors and get treated ...

For fraternal twins who share 50 percent of their genes, this rate drops to around 2 percent. Scientists have long suspected that gut bacteria may influence a person's risk of developing multiple ...

A research team has elucidated the mechanism behind bacterial cancer therapy using a genetically engineered bacterial strain. Their findings were published in Cell. Exploring the use of antitumor ...

Also helpful to note: The symptoms of a yeast infection tend to colonize your whole vulva (meaning, your external labia), causing irritation and itching throughout, whereas bacterial vaginosis is ...

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 ...

Bacteria consumed by immune cells become part of the cell Date: February 26, 2025 Source: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Summary: Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don't ...

The emergence of antibiotic tolerance enables genetically susceptible bacteria to withstand the killing by clinically relevant antibiotics. As is reported, an increasing body of evidence sheds light ...

However, it remains uncertain which effect mostly shapes microbial community structure. We determined soil bacterial diversity and community structure by 454 pyrosequencing the V1-V3 regions of 16S ...