Infection Control Today - Bacteria

Plasma Flashlight Kills Bacteria

A plasma flashlight – a torch that emits a plasma jet that kills bacteria on the skin in an instant -- is being developed by a group of Chinese and Australian scientists, including from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), and is ...More

April 26, 2012

Posted in News, Hand Hygiene

Researchers Find Joint Failures Potentially Linked to Oral Bacteria

The culprit behind a failed hip or knee replacements might be found in the mouth. DNA testing of bacteria from the fluid that lubricates hip and knee joints had bacteria with the same DNA as the plaque from patients with gum disease and in need of a joint replacement. This ...More

April 18, 2012

Posted in News

Beach Sand Eventually May Become Unsafe Due to Disease-Causing Bacteria

With summer days at the beach on the minds of millions of winter-weary people, a new study provides health departments with information needed to determine when levels of disease-causing bacteria in beach sand could pose a risk to children and others who dig or play in the ...More

April 11, 2012

Posted in News

Scientists Discover How a Bacterial Pathogen Breaks Down Barriers to Enter and Infect Cells

Scientists from the Schepens Eye Research Institute, a subsidiary of Mass. Eye and Ear and affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have found for the first time that a bacterial pathogen can literally mow down protective molecules, known as mucins, on mucus membranes to enter ...More

March 8, 2012

Posted in News

Solving the Mystery of How Sulfa Drugs Kill Bacteria Yields Drug Development Target

More than 70 years after the first sulfa drugs helped to revolutionize medical care and save millions of lives, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have determined at an atomic level the mechanism these medications use to kill bacteria. The discovery provides ...More

March 2, 2012

Posted in News

Study by UCSB Researchers Suggests That Bacteria Communicate by Touch

What if bacteria could talk to each other? What if they had a sense of touch? A new study by researchers at UC Santa Barbara suggests both, and theorizes that such cells may, in fact, need to communicate in order to perform certain functions. The findings appear today in ...More

March 1, 2012

Posted in News

Investigators Predict, Confirm How E. coli Bacteria Hijack Cells' Directional Mechanism

Working in the emerging field of systems biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers mathematically predicted how bacteria that cause food poisoning hijack a cell's sense of direction and then confirmed those predictions in living cells. ...More

March 1, 2012

Posted in News

Some Bacteria Attack Using Spring-Loaded Poison Daggers

A team co-led by researchers at the California Institute of Technology has figured out the structure of the type VI secretion system apparatus and proposed how it might work -- by shooting spring-loaded poison molecular daggers. Image by: Nature/Everett Kane Bacteria have ...More

February 27, 2012

Posted in News

Scientists Discover the Unfolded End of a Protein Can Kill E. coli-Like Bacteria Selectively

When bacteria wage a turf war, some of the combatants have an extra weapon. Certain strains of the bacteria E. coli produce proteins that kill competing E. coli and other like microbes, and researchers from Newcastle University in England have recently discovered something ...More

February 23, 2012

Posted in News

Exposure to Common Environmental Bacteria May be Source of Some Allergic Inflammation

New research published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology suggests that certain strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa cause white blood cells to produce high levels of histamine, which worsens the severity of inflammation and infection. Could some cases of asthma actually be ...More

January 31, 2012

Posted in News

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