Antibiotic-resistant bacteria from livestock pose a deadly risk to people. But the farm lobby won't let scientists track the danger
Escherichia coli. Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH A national study led by University of Adelaide researchers has confirmed that antibiotic resistant strains of disease-causing bacteria, such as E. coli, are steadily on the rise in Australia. The results of the study, conducted for...
Multi-drug resistant strains which do not respond to first-line antibiotics continue to emerge, putting at risk numerous public health strategies which aim to reduce incidence and mortality. Here, we speak with Professor Valerie Mizrahi, world-leading researcher and former director of the Institute ...
Microorganisms differ significantly in their ability to tolerate destruction by physical or chemical means. As demonstrated in Fig.1, vegetative bacteria, viruses, fungi, and mycobacteria are often considered the least resistant to decontamination and can usually be reduced to a sanitary level by saniti...
Once antibiotic-resistant bacteria become established within the gut microbiota, they can cause infections in the host and be transmitted to other people and the environment. Currently, there are no effective ... Amy Langdon, Drew J. Schwartz, Christopher Bulow, Xiaoqing Sun, Tiffany Hink, Kimberl...
The Carriage Of Multiresistant Bacteria After Travel (COMBAT) study aims to 1. determine the acquisition rate of multiresistant Enterobacteriaceae during foreign travel 2. ascertain the duration of carriage of these micro-organisms 3. determine the transmission rate within households 4. identify risk ...
Antibiotic resistance genes are often carried by plasmids, which spread intra- and inter genera bacterial populations, and also play a critical role in bacteria conferring phage resistance. However, it remains unknown about the influence of plasmids pres
L. lactis strains and other GRAS bacteria, therefore, which are resistant to the mentioned environmental factors, could be promising alternatives even for high molecular mass proteins vulnerable to digestion [128, 129]. Several studies have demonstrated that large proteins, native or heterologously ...
Bacteria have evolved numerous defense systems to protect themselves from viral (bacteriophage) infection. The ToxIN system of Pectobacterium atrosepticum is a Type III toxin-antitoxin complex and “altruistic suicide” anti-phage system, which kills pha
which is produced by the nasal and skin commensalStaphylococcus lugdunensis. Lugdunin displays potent antimicrobial activity against a broad spectrum of Gram-positive bacteria, including challenging-to-treat methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus(MRSA). Lugdunin specifically inhibits target bacteria by dis...