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Bacterium may decrease effectiveness of immunotherapy

Medical Xpress

Helicobacter pylori is a bacterium that colonizes the stomach lining and is found in more than half of the global population, making it one of the most widespread bacterial infections in the world.

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Secretion of sugar polymers modulates multicellularity in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus

Scienmag

Fundamental research in bacterial physiology Credit: Salim Timo Islam Research by INRS (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique) Professor Salim Timo Islam and his PhD student Fares Saïdi has recently revealed that multicellular physiology in the social bacterium Myxococcus xanthus–a bacterium that can actively reorganize its community (..)

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C. difficile infection: A close-up on an urgent public health threat

Bio Pharma Dive

As hospitals have dealt with surging admissions and extended stays with COVID-19, staff and patients alike have still had to contend with another potentially deadly infection from a bacterium called Clostridioides difficile.

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Bacterium that causes rare but dangerous disease likely endemic along Gulf Coast, CDC says

STAT News

The bacterium that causes a rare but dangerous disease called melioidosis is likely endemic in parts of the southern United States, along the Gulf Coast. The bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei, was previously not thought to be found in the U.S.,

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Nitrogen-producing process of anammox bacterium finally uncovered

Scienmag

The anammox bacterium and other bacteria use this enzyme to convert toxic nitrite into nitrate. After years of research, the molecular structure of the enzyme responsible for a large part of the global nitrate and nitrogen production by bacteria has finally been uncovered.

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New Class of Antibiotic Found That Kills Deadly Drug-Resistant Superbug

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

Zosurabalpin is highly effective against the bacterium carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (Crab), which is classified as a “priority 1” pathogen by the World Health Organization due to its growing presence in hospitals.

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Patients with kidney transplants more vulnerable to common, usually harmless bacterium

Scienmag

11, 2021) – It’s a pervasive bacterium found in soil and water that rarely causes disease, but a new national review of nocardia infection in people who have had a kidney transplant shows that when it occurs it most commonly causes pneumonia and brain abscess, and reminds their physicians to stay on the […]. AUGUSTA, Ga.