Bacteria that cause disease are called “pathogens.” When certain pathogens enter the food supply, they can cause food-borne illness. Only a few types cause millions of cases of food-borne illness each year. Ironically, most cases of food-borne illness can be prevented. Proper cooking or pro...
Organisms like bacteria that are known to cause disease are called (a) Parasitic (b) Stromatolites (c) Archaic (d) Pathogenic What kind of cells has viruses that can infect them? What is the difference between a virus and a bacterial cell?
How do viruses cause disease (the effect(s) on host cells or tissues that cause disease)? Name a specific virus and the disease it causes and how it causes the disease. This is not about the stages of the virus life cycle. All viruses are obligate ...
The main message of the study's findings is that "even with all the new antibiotics and treatments, this disease is still around," Chun said. "This is still prevalent in our age of increasing technology and medicine." The bacteria that cause necrotizing fasciitis, called Group A strep, are...
Bacteria are organisms that consist of a single cell without a nucleus and with distinct structural, physiological and evolutionary characteristics. Bacteria form one of the three domains of life; the others are archaea and eukaryotes. Bacterial species and their habitats exhibit great diversity.Featured...
French scientist Louis Pasteur in the 1800s proved that some bacteria are germs that cause disease. He found that heat killsbacteria. Heating surgical instruments to kill bacteria is called sterilization. Heating milk and other foods to kill bacteria is called pasteurization, a word named for Paste...
so called opportunistic infection. The infection caused by pathogenic bacteria is usually confined to a part of the body, described as a localized infection. These infections may be caused by the bacteria themselves or by toxins (endotoxins) they...
The mechanism that the researchers uncovered is complex but has its origins in a hypothesis linking the bacteria's stealthiness to cancer cells' capacity to evade the immune system. At issue here are two proteins that act as...
called bacteriophages; for everyspeciesof bacteria, there is a unique bacteriophage that will destroy it. Scientists are testing new therapies that combine bacteriophages with the antibiotics that we currently use, to treat antibiotic-resistant infections. In their current Disease Models & Mechan...
XyIeIIa fastidiosa is the cause of the Pierce's Disease in grapevines and other cultures of economic importance that are susceptible to the bacteria. Anti-Xylella fastidiosa substances were developed comprising hen scFv antibodies attached to a lytic peptide Cecropin Pl (CPI), a derivative of...