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Bacterial Diseases - Articles
Lyme Disease: The Bacterial Next-Door Neighbor
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Jenna Smith
Posted
Thu 24 Nov 2011 12:00am
LymeDiseasePublisher asked:
Video by www.lymebook.com – In this video, created March 25, 2010, I ask the question Can you get rid of Lyme disease quickly, or is it a more long-term, sustainable pursuit? Don’t miss our newest book, “Insights into Lyme Disease Treatment: 13 Lyme-Literate Health Care Practitioners Share
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Dr. Eva Sapi – Bacterial Biofilms and Lyme Disease
by
Jenna Smith
Posted
Sun 23 Jan 2011 12:00am
ADRSupport asked:
This video is a 10 minute clip, part of a 70 minute interview with Dr. Sapi from the University of New Haven. She is credited with being the first researcher to demonstrate that Lyme spirochetes can actually create their own complex biofilm community to survive indefinitely within their hosts; both ...
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Stopping Bacterial Infections Without Antibiotics
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Health: Hearsay & Headlines
Posted
Wed 27 Jan 2010 12:00am
/PRNewswire/ -- New research at the A. James Clark School of Engineering could prevent bacterial infections using tiny biochemical machines--nanofactories--that can... than traveling throughout the body, another advantage over traditional antibiotics.
Bacterial cells talk to each other in a form of cell-to-cell communication known as quorum
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Preventing Bacterial Infections from Medical Devices
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nih.gov
Posted
Mon 20 Dec 2010 1:41pm
bacterial communities called biofilms cause disease and provides a potential target for future treatments.
This scanning electron micrograph shows a clump... lead to sepsis.
A research team led by Dr. Michael Otto of NIH's National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) set out to determine how bacteria from biofilms
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FDA Approves Teflaro for Bacterial Infections
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Health: Hearsay & Headlines
Posted
Mon 01 Nov 2010 12:00am
in a class of drugs known as cephalosporins, which act by interfering with the bacterial cell wall.
CABP is a bacterial infection that develops in the lungs of patients who are exposed to the bacteria in their normal environment, and not in the hospital. ABSSSI is a bacterial infection of skin and skin structures that requires antibiotic treatment and may
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Insulin May Reduce Several Inflammatory Factors Induced by Bacterial Infection
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Ed H.
Posted
Wed 08 Sep 2010 6:21pm
Treating intensive care patients who develop life-threatening bacterial infections, or septicemia, with insulin potentially could reduce their chances of succumbing to the infection, if results of a new preliminary study can be replicated in a larger study.
A paper published online ahead of print in Diabetes Care reports that insulin lowered
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