Summarizes a study on the resistance of bacteria such as Pseudomonas putida to organic solvents, conducted by S. Isken and J. de Bont of Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands and published in a 1996 issue of `Journal of Bacteriology.' Ability of bacteria to use energy to pump...
“The standard approach to treating infections for the last 75 years has been to focus on killing the pathogen, but the overuse of antibiotics in livestock and in humans has led to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that we are having a harder and harder time killing. Our research...
In mature biofilm of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Coquet et al showed 15 times increases the MIC of Tobramycin and 20 times for Imipemen compared with planktonic strains [56]. Resistance to biocides is different and depending on the different stages of evolution and biofilm formation [55]. Bacteria ...
Growing evidence indicates that the mammalian microbiome can affect behaviour, and several symbionts even produce neurotransmitters. One common explanation for these observations is that symbionts have evolved to manipulate host behaviour for their benef
In the EU it is still treated as an experimental way to fight pathogens, while in the USA there are only a few products that obtained FDA permission. These are intended to be used against pathogens like adherent-invasive E. coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, or Staphylococcus aureus (Huang et al...
However, similar to any social organism, cooperative bacteria are always vulnerable to exploitation by non-producing cheats. In the absence of any kin or spatial structure, any individuals in a population that do not produce a public good will have an advantage over individuals that do, a ...