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Bacterium may decrease effectiveness of immunotherapy

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

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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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Making babies healthier with a ‘lost bacterium’

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Making babies healthier with a ‘lost bacterium’ Mike.Hammerton Wed, 05/24/2023 - 10:15 Bookmark this

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

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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.

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Putting the brakes on a bacterium that is a major cause of GI distress

Scienmag

July 1, 2022) – As we head outdoors this summer, scientists are working to clip the long, flexible appendages that enable the common bacterium Campylobacter jejuni to make its way from undercooked poultry and natural waterways into our intestinal tract where it makes millions of us sick each year. AUGUSTA, Ga.