Who Is More Prone to Recurrent UTIs? Bladder Bacteria May Be Key
University of Texas at Dallas
Estrogen may also play a role in reducing UTI susceptibility in women
Bacteria
What Do Aromatherapy and a Pet Raccoon Have to Do with Melioidosis?
Zahraa Chorghay, PhD
Melioidosis outbreak across southern US states attributed to contaminated imported aromatherapy spray
A New Contamination Detection Tool for Low Microbial Biomass Microbiomes
Baylor College of Medicine
A computer analysis pipeline that helps detect contaminants in samples that contain little microbial DNA
Occupational Hazard: COVID-19 False Positives Found in Lab Workers
American Society for Microbiology
Small study found that false positive tests for the virus came from harmless bits of DNA
Immunologic Defect May Leave Some Vulnerable to Rare Bacterial Infection
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Scientists uncover defect that stops T cells from fighting MAC bacteria
Treating Disease with E. coli Engineered from Stool Samples
Cell Press
Engineered E. coli collected from gut microbiomes have the potential to treat diseases such as diabetes
Can We Save More Lives If We Let Resistant Bacteria Live?
University of Southern Denmark
New experiments have shown that fatty acids could make resistant bacteria harmless
Rapid Method Shown to Detect Infection in Cystic Fibrosis
University of Southampton
New analysis could be performed in hospital wards for faster results and treatment
An Enemy Within: Pathogens Hide in Tissue
University of Basel
A research group has now discovered why some bacteria can survive antibiotic therapy
Test Determines Antibiotic Resistance in Less than 90 Minutes
Washington State University
Speed of new technique a dramatic improvement from the one to two days required by current methods