Infection Control Today - Microbes

Lungs Infected with Plague Bacteria Also Become Playgrounds for Other Microbes

Among medical mysteries baffling many infectious disease experts is exactly how the deadly pneumonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, goes undetected in the first few day of lung infection, often until it’s too late for medical treatment. New research from the University ...More

January 30, 2012

Posted in News

Microbial Communities on Skin Affect Humans' Attractiveness to Mosquitoes

The microbes on your skin determine how attractive you are to mosquitoes, which may have important implications for malaria transmission and prevention, according to a study published Dec. 28 in the online journal PLoS ONE. Without bacteria, human sweat is odorless to the ...More

December 28, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Detailed Microbe Database Now Available Online

Covering a wide range of microbes, experts from leading environmental bio-contamination specialist, Bioquell, have developed a comprehensive and freely available online 'bug' database. The microsite features more than 30 of the most common environmental contaminants of ...More

November 21, 2011

Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization, Environmental Hygiene

Researchers Study How Microbes Travel Through the Air

Shane Ross, left, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics, and David Schmale III, right, associate professor of plant pathology, physiology and weed science, both at Virginia Tech, are using autonomous aircraft to study how airborne microbes might ride ...More

September 9, 2011

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Researchers Study Microbes Circulating in Urban-Area Air

Bacteria from fecal material -- in particular, dog fecal material -- may constitute the dominant source of airborne bacteria in Cleveland's and Detroit's wintertime air, says a new University of Colorado Boulder study. The CU-Boulder study showed that of the four Midwestern ...More

August 19, 2011

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Study Reveals How Microbes Travel the Earth

Scientists from the UK and Switzerland have investigated the remarkable distance that microorganisms may be able to blow between continents, raising questions about their potential to colonise new lands and also potentially to spread diseases. The researchers from Liverpool ...More

August 17, 2011

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Bellybutton Microbiomes Bust the Myth That All Skin Bacteria are Bad

Human skin is teeming with microbes—communities of bacteria, many of which are harmless, live alongside the more infamous microbes sometimes found on the skin. Nina Rountree from North Carolina State University and colleagues set out to dispel the myth that all bacteria on ...More

August 3, 2011

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Study Discovers How Microbes Make It Past Tight Spaces Between Cells

There are 10 microbial cells for every one human cell in the body, and microbiology dogma holds that there is a tight barrier protecting the inside of the body from outside invaders, in this case bacteria. Bacterial pathogens can break this barrier to cause infection and ...More

June 17, 2011

Posted in News

Microbial Growth in Pharaoh's Tomb Suggests Burial was Rushed

In the tomb of King Tutankhamen, the elaborately painted walls are covered with dark brown spots that mar the face of the goddess Hathor, the silvery-coated baboons—in fact, almost every surface. Despite almost a century of scientific investigation, the precise identity of ...More

June 8, 2011

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'Policing' Stops Cheaters from Dominating Groups of Cooperative Bacteria

When environmental conditions are hospitable, Myxococcus xanthus takes a rod-shaped form (yellow), swarming, dividing, and competing with other cells for nutrients. When stressed, the bacterium becomes more social, collaborating with other cells to produce spherical spores ...More

May 26, 2011

Posted in News

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