Saturday, February 9th, 2008
Advice from a Saint Louis University germ expert is music to the ears of those who dread the annual tradition of spring cleaning.
Don't go overboard, cautions Donna Duberg, assistant professor of clinical laboratory science at Saint Louis University's Doisy College of Health Sciences.
"Ask yourself the question: How contaminated is my ...
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
A research team from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, examining bacterial isolates obtained in hospital and non-hospital clinical settings between 2000 and 2006, has identified drug-resistant strains of E. coli and Klebsiella bacteria in more than 50 blood, urine and respiratory samples. These resistant strains, ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Researchers from Monash University and CSIRO Livestock Industries have demonstrated for the first time that alpha-toxin protein, long thought to be required for necrotic enteritis to develop, is not the main cause of the chicken disease. The study, published February 8 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, provides insight into ...
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