• Among those concerns are the microbial threats associated with pathogenic bacteria as well as the emerging issues associated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the potential for proliferation of antibiotic resistance genes. (mdpi.com)
  • I am a molecular microbiologist with interests in the the virulence mechanisms of pathogenic bacteria. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • 1 Since then, research has looked at possible clinical uses for these agents and in 1995, when a greater understanding of their properties had developed, the term "biotherapeutic agents" was proposed to describe micro-organisms with specific therapeutic properties that also inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria. (bmj.com)
  • Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have the potential to degrade intestinal oxalate and this is increasingly being studied as a promising probiotic solution to manage kidney stone disease. (hindawi.com)
  • Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are vital residents of human intestinal ecosystem and have been extensively used as probiotics owing to their health promoting benefits to the host [ 7 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • As a biochemist you study the way living organisms - from viruses and bacteria to mammals, plants and other higher organisms - function at the molecular level. (kent.ac.uk)
  • Three trials used a combination of probiotic strains of bacteria. (bmj.com)
  • You see he remarked, I am 62, and from the research, I read says, as we age the beneficial strains of bacteria we had as kids gradually die off. (hatsprobiotics.com)
  • WGS is expected to improve AMR surveillance by providing a greater understanding of the transmission of resistant bacteria and AMR genes throughout the food chain, and therefore support risk assessment activities. (nih.gov)
  • Regulation Transcriptional of Antibiotic Resistance Genes (ARGs) in Bacteria Isolated from WWTP. (antimicrobialresistance.eu)
  • This translational project studies clinical populations of pregnant mothers, their children and parallel rodent model systems in order to determine how early life environmental exposures (e.g.- maternal diets, high blood sugars etc.) affect the genes of the children to influence their risk for obesity. (canue.ca)
  • Gut microbiota manipulation including probiotics, faecal microbial transplant and antibiotics has been studied in alcoholic liver disease with varying success. (nature.com)
  • Genetic microbial faecal source tracking: rising technology to support future water quality testing and safety management. (waterandhealth.at)
  • When PAHs are unavailable to biological systems toxicity is reduced but biodegradation is inhibited since they are partially unavailable for microbial degradation and bacteria degrade chemicals only when they are dissolved in water ( Al-Turki, 2009 ). (scialert.net)
  • C3507 Immune System Disorder C96388 NICHD Childhood Immunization Terminology C62761 Attenuated Bacteria Vaccine Attenuated Bacteria Vaccine Attenuated Live Bacterial Vaccine Any vaccine created by reducing the virulence of bacteria but still keeping the bacteria viable (live). (nih.gov)
  • Personal and stationary sampling was carried out to assess exposure to both viable and total microbial aerosols. (aaem.pl)
  • However, several countries provide data on contamination with pesticides, heavy metals and mycotoxins to WHO's Global Environment Monitoring System/Food Contamination Monitoring and Assessment Programme (GEMS/Food). (who.int)
  • Bakutis B, Monstviliene E, Januskeviciene G. Analyses of airborne contamination with bacteria, endotoxins and dust in livestock barns and poultry houses. (aaem.pl)
  • Dealing with contamination caused by bacteria, weedy algae/cyanobacteria and other organisms is a major constraint to establish effective cultivation processes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Several microbial populations show distinct enrichments in CSD-born infants at 1 year of age including strains of Bacteroides caccae , Bifidobacterium bifidum and Ruminococcus gnavus , whereas others are present at higher levels in the VD group including Faecalibacterium prausnitizii , Bifidobacterium breve and Bifidobacterium kashiwanohense . (nature.com)
  • Dynamic human exposure to airborne bacteria-associated antibiotic resistomes revealed by longitudinal personal monitoring data. (antimicrobialresistance.eu)
  • Mycorrhizal fungi, nitrogen free living bacteria, and phosphate solubilizing bacteria are important microbial groups that have been recognized as plant growth promoting microorganisms. (moa.gov.cy)
  • The survival and growth of microorganisms are influenced by the composition of the atmosphere surrounding the meat. (microbenotes.com)
  • Fresh meat contains nutrients such as sugars, amino acids, vitamins, cofactors, etc and it had pH (5.5-5.9) and Aw (0.85) values that influence the growth of microorganisms. (microbenotes.com)
  • The number of culturable microorganisms was significantly lower than their total counts, constituting from 0.0004% - 6.4% of the total microbial flora. (aaem.pl)
  • We study both Gram negative and positive bacteria, with the aim of characterising novel virulence factors. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • These carbohydrates act as nutrients for biofilm bacteria, especially acidogenic and aciduric species. (bvsalud.org)
  • Studies have confirmed the correlation between oral administration of Lactobacillus or Bifidobacterium species and their important role in luminal oxalate reduction, which decreased the risk of urinary oxalate excretion in humans and animals [ 2 , 11 - 13 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The ecological impacts of climate change are broad and diverse, altering species' range limits, plant phenology and growth, carbon and nutrient cycling, as well as biodiversity and extinction risk. (plos.org)
  • C26726 Infectious Disease C96388 NICHD Childhood Immunization Terminology C76205 Bordetella pertussis Bordetella pertussis A species of bacteria within the phylum Proteobacteria consisting of gram-negative aerobic coccobacillus that are the causative agent of pertussis. (nih.gov)
  • The supplement, focused on interviews with couples considering Fragile X testing, aims to identify sex/gender differences in personal health risks and reproductive genetic risks. (nih.gov)
  • Genetic Microbial Source Tracking Support QMRA Modeling for a Riverine Wetland Drinking Water Resource. (waterandhealth.at)
  • Although progress in developing genetic and genomic tools has been slow compared to that for bacteria or even plants, genetic manipulation of some cyanobacterial strains by classical genetic approaches, gene transfer, and genome editing-based techniques is now possible. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Microbiota changes might also alter brain function, and the gut-brain axis might be a potential target to reduce alcoholic relapse risk. (nature.com)
  • Secondary outcomes will assess the cellular and chemical composition of maternal milk, the impact of nutrition and environment on microbiota development, the maternal microbiome transfer at vaginal or caesarean birth and thereafter on the infant, and correlate parameters of microbiota and maternal milk on infant growth, development, health, and mental well-being. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, since great discriminative power is required to study pathogen and host simultaneously throughout the infection process, the depth of quantitative gene expression profiling has proven to be unsatisfactory when focusing on bacterial pathogens, thus preferentially requiring specific strategies or the development of novel methodologies based on complementary omics approaches. (preprints.org)
  • I am very interested to study the effects of these pollutants on the ecology and function of soil microbial communities using biochemical (PLFA) and molecular biology techniques. (moa.gov.cy)
  • The efficiency of biodegradation is assessed using soil dehydrogenase test to measure microbial activity when supplied with individual PAHs, in addition to different concentrations of phenanthrene. (scialert.net)
  • Assessment of soil and groundwater impacts by treated urban wastewater reuse. (ijeap.org)
  • Response of microbial activity and community structure to decreasing soil osmotic and matric potential. (ijeap.org)
  • We perform high-resolution, quantitative metagenomic analyses of the gut microbiomes of infants born by vaginal delivery (VD) or by CSD, from immediately after birth through to 1 year of life. (nature.com)
  • Recent studies are focused on developing intestinal oxalate degrading bacteria as an appropriate probiotics solution to prevent kidney stone disease. (hindawi.com)
  • Martin E, Kämpfer P, Jäckel U. Quantification and identification of culturable airborne bacteria from duck houses. (aaem.pl)
  • Salmonella Typhi (Typhi) is a type of bacteria that causes typhoid fever. (cdc.gov)
  • The overall objectives of the IPCS are to establish the scientific basis for assessment of the risk to human health and the environment from exposure to chemicals, through international peer review processes, as a prerequisite for the promotion of chemical safety, and to provide technical assistance in strengthening national capacities for the sound management of chemicals. (inchem.org)
  • Dutkiewicz J. Exposure to dust-borne bacteria in agriculture. (aaem.pl)
  • An increased oxalate intake and intestinal absorption may lead to hyperoxaluria, a predominant risk factor for calcium oxalate stone disease [ 2 ] which is characterized by a high frequency of recurrence. (hindawi.com)
  • Oxalobacter formigenes (O. formigenes) is an oxalate degrading bacterium, which uses intestinal oxalate as a sole source of carbon in order to regulate the oxalate homeostasis. (hindawi.com)
  • Environmental science provides an integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems. (wikipedia.org)
  • CICADs join the Environmental Health Criteria documents (EHCs) as authoritative documents on the risk assessment of chemicals. (inchem.org)
  • Colonization with mutualistic microbes starts principally at birth when the newborn contacts the bacteria of the birth canal or during maternal and environmental contact after caesarean section, except in pathologic conditions such as intrauterine infection with a pathogen. (biomedcentral.com)
  • C97116 Attenuated Live Vaccine C96388 NICHD Childhood Immunization Terminology C2890 Bacterial Infection Bacterial Disease An acute infectious disorder caused by gram positive or gram negative bacteria. (nih.gov)
  • Microbial quality of irrigation water and irrigated vegetables in Kano State, Nigeria. (ijeap.org)
  • Microbiological evaluation of the feeds revealed that mesophilic aerobic bacteria in the BSL feed were 2-3 orders of magnitude more abundant than those in the other diets and their numbers significantly increased during storage. (hindawi.com)
  • Functional microbial changes, in particular, hepatic bile acid production and bacterial biotransformation, are altered in parallel with the disease stages and differ between actively drinking patients with cirrhosis and those with alcoholic hepatitis. (nature.com)
  • Caesarean section delivery (CSD) disrupts mother-to-neonate transmission of specific microbial strains and functional repertoires as well as linked immune system priming. (nature.com)
  • This outbreak illustrated that the vast majority of the population did not become ill after ingesting a low level of L. monocytogenes but raises the question of listeriosis cases in highly susceptible persons after distribution of low-level contaminated products that did not support the growth of this pathogen. (cdc.gov)
  • We will also determine whether altering the early life environment (e.g.- through diet etc.) modifies disease risk factors in children most susceptible for obesity. (canue.ca)
  • In conclusion, three efficient oxalate degrading LAB were identified and their safety assessments suggest that they may serve as good probiotic candidates for preventing hyperoxaluria. (hindawi.com)
  • The term "probiotic" was first used to describe "a live microbial supplement, which beneficially affects the host by improving its microbial balance. (bmj.com)
  • Council Report: Cancer risk of pesticides in agricultural workers. (cdc.gov)
  • In patients who have substantial liver fibrosis, gut microbial changes occur in parallel to liver injury, with an increase in endotoxin-producing and a reduction in autochthonous bacterial taxa, which continue through active drinking in cirrhosis until alcoholic hepatitis. (nature.com)
  • Currently, in vivo study of bacterial interactions within oysters is limited by the inability to promote high-level uptake of bacteria by oysters. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • Additionally the implementation of analytical chemistry regarding the fate of these pollutants in the environment will also help us to understand their relation with microbial community. (moa.gov.cy)
  • Only a few countries attempt to provide production to consumption protection in relation to high-risk foods such as meat, seafood and poultry. (who.int)
  • Clinical parameters describing infant growth and development, morbidity, and allergic conditions as well as socio-economic, nutritional, and epidemiological data will be documented. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Pilus proteins, beta-hemolysin and the T6SS were characteristic of the early-infection stage, while fimbria, upregulation of 10 toxins or effector proteins, and the Dot/Icm T4SS were representative of the late-infection stage bacteria. (preprints.org)
  • Fresh meat is subjected to spoilage by its enzymes and microbial action. (microbenotes.com)
  • Microbial growth, oxidation, and enzymatic autolysis are the three basic mechanisms responsible for the spoilage of meat. (microbenotes.com)
  • The nutrient composition, high water content, and moderate pH of meat make it an excellent medium for microbial growth. (microbenotes.com)
  • Metabolic differences were observed in early-stage infection bacteria, compared to late-stage infections. (preprints.org)
  • There are two main areas of research currently being conducted, one of which is the assessment of novel antimicrobials such as essential oils against HAIs both in vegetative and biofilm form for use in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry. (dmu.ac.uk)
  • Additionally, this study aims to characterize the role of microbial food-derived metabolites in pediatric IBD. (canue.ca)
  • Rapid assessment and treatment of immediate life-threatening conditions is mandatory in patients with burns. (medscape.com)
  • La réanimation agressive, la prise en charge nutritionnelle, l'excision chirur- gicale complète des plaies infectées, la fermeture rapide des plaies, les greffes et la mise au point d'une chimiothérapie locale et systémique efficace ont permis d'améliorer grandement le taux de morbidité et de mortalité chez les patients brûlés. (who.int)
  • To reduce the development of drug-resistant bacteria and maintain the effectiveness of oxacillin for injection and other antibacterial drugs, oxacillin for injection should be used only to treat or prevent infections that are proven or strongly suspected to be caused by bacteria. (nih.gov)
  • A prospective randomized controlled trial of recombinant human growth hormone (HGH) in combination with propranolol demonstrated attenuated hypermetabolism and inflammatory and acute-phase responses after severe burn injury. (medscape.com)
  • Genital Warts A sexually transmitted papillary growth caused by the human papillomavirus. (nih.gov)
  • These MICs provide estimates of the susceptibility of bacteria to antimicrobial compounds. (nih.gov)
  • Quantitative methods that require measurement of zone diameters can also provide reproducible estimates of the susceptibility of bacteria to antimicrobial compounds. (nih.gov)
  • The researchers also discovered that the content of the microbial community at 1 year of age-related to fear responses. (telanganatoday.com)
  • Quantitative methods are used to determine antimicrobial minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs). (nih.gov)
  • Studies with different concentrations of phenanthrene showed linear increase in growth with percentage increase of phenanthrene in case of ISO2 where 0.16±0.04 to 0.72±0.06 was the Optical Density (OD) whereas minimal OD was observed in ISO5 while in ISO1 and ISO3 phenanthrene utilization was variable. (scialert.net)
  • 8. Matyssek R., Günthardt‑Goerg M.S., Saurer M., and Keller T. (1992): Seasonal growth, d 13 C in leaves and stem, and phloem structure of birch ( Betula pendula ) under low ozone concentrations. (wsl.ch)
  • This requires judgment and expertise and generally needs an iterative process of distribution choice, parameter estimation, and quality of fit assessment. (unipd.it)
  • MedChat, LLC (Charlotte, NC) Hundreds of payers, providers and other healthcare organizations use MedChat's communication and automation platform to improve engagement, quality & safety, productivity, and revenue growth. (healthcare.report)
  • This study has therefore evolved current natural marine snow protocols to generate 'artificial' marine snow, into which bacteria can be incorporated to facilitate extensive uptake by oysters. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • Microbial function, especially related to bile acid metabolism, can modulate alcohol-associated injury even in the presence of cirrhosis and alcoholic hepatitis. (nature.com)
  • Children should be aware of threats in their environment and be ready to respond to them" said Knickmeyer, who also works in MSU's Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, or IQ. (telanganatoday.com)
  • Understanding the likelihood of developing invasive listeriosis after ingesting a given number of Listeria monocytogenes cells (dose-response relationship) is important in managing risks linked to this pathogen in food. (cdc.gov)
  • INTERNATIONAL CHEMICAL SAFETY CARD REFERENCES APPENDIX 1 - SOURCE DOCUMENTS APPENDIX 2 - CICAD FINAL REVIEW BOARD R SUM D'ORIENTATION RESUMEN DE ORIENTACION FOREWORD Concise International Chemical Assessment Documents (CICADs) are the latest in a family of publications from the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) - a cooperative programme of the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). (inchem.org)
  • Concise International Chemical Assessment Documents (CICADs) are the latest in a family of publications from the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) a cooperative programme of the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Labour Organization (ILO), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). (inchem.org)
  • After joining the Ph.D. program, his research and undergraduate studies focused on Mathematical models of tumor growth. (mtsu.edu)
  • A particular focus of Prof Laird's research is on the role of healthcare textiles as fomites, her research has raised international awareness of the risks to healthcare workers of incorrect laundering of uniforms. (dmu.ac.uk)
  • To evaluate in vitro the effect of a red propolis ethanolic extract (RPE) in the prevention of growth of a cariogenic biofilm and its cytotoxic potential. (bvsalud.org)
  • Green plants (and some bacteria) are the only organisms that can directly capture the sun's energy and change it into a form that other organisms can use. (studylib.net)