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In addition, by damaging cells that line the respiratory tract, the viruses can open the door for bacteria in the body to overgrow, driving inflammation and possibly bacterial pneumonia. "These are the bacteria that commonly colonize the upper respiratory tract of people without causing any ...
Tears and mucus contain an enzyme (lysozyme) that breaks down the cell wall of many bacteria. Saliva is also anti-bacterial. Since the nasal passage and lungs are coated in mucus, many germs not killed immediately are trapped in the mucus and soon swallowed. Mast cells also line the nasal...
Bacterial communities form when free swimming bacteria reversibly attach to a surface. At high cell densities, many species trigger processes involved in biofilm formation, including the production of extracellular matrix. The matrix adheres the community to the surface and provides protection from predat...
nuclear plants,even though more people die from coal pollution in a single year than have died in all nuclear accidents combined.3/ Our laws and regulations are so outdated.One problem is that many of the environmental laws and regulations in place today weren’t designed with climate change ...
sequences” in their DNA. When a virus attacks, these bacteria target that virus and cleave its DNA which they will then store in their CRISPR array. With this genetic memory of the enemy, the immune system becomes more effective in fighting off succeeding attacks from the same virus strain...
he was putting the sad past behind him and starting to plan a future with his girlfriend, Kiyomi Shima.In the wake of the tragedy, Dr Enright called for research to investigate how many people are carrying the bacteria which can trigger the release of PVL if it gets into the body.He ...
and people who are obese are more likely than those who are not obese to contract Covid-19 at a younger age, develop severe Covid-19, require hospitalization, oxygen, mechanical ventilation, intubation, or admission into ICU, end up in hospital sooner, or die from Covid-19.Continue ...
(jelly-fall) as well as some bacterial components of the coastal lagoon of Varano. In particular, over the course of a year, we assessed bacterial biomass and the abundances of total coliforms, faecal coliforms, intestinal enterococci, culturable vibrios, and culturable bacteria at 37 °C (...
Cannabis plants grow very fast in a short amount of time, and need a lot of energy from the light to grow and produce buds. In the wild, a cannabis plant can grow to the size of tree in less than a year, and it uses energy from light to power that growth. Many new growers who...