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MRSA: Is Antibiotic Resistant Staph Lurking At Your Gym?
Answer Fitness® | Practical Exercise, Fitness, Diet and Nut… | September 6th 2008 by The Fitness Nerd at Answer Fitness®
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The wrong kind of soap is bad. Very bad.
Worried Dad | September 2nd 2008
I thought I was getting ahead of the curve for once, but The Wife one-upped me.It seems that a triclosan and triclocarban, common additives to hand soap, dish washing liquid, toothpaste and hundreds of other common household cleaners, has been linked read more
CDC Worried About Antibiotic Resistance
Bark 'N' Blog | August 30th 2008 by Dr. Kim Bloomer
Are you surprised??? NOT! I’ve barked about this far too many times here on Bark N Blog for you to be surprised, WOOF! Bio-Alternatives allowed me to share this article with you. My mom just started buying their colloidal silver for us from the read more
Constructing Clear Skin
Rice & Peace | August 20th 2008 by Elizabeth
I was not one of those people born with the perfect skin gene, yet it is something I have always wanted to achieve. Those of you who have battled acne know exactly what I am talking about, but people with a nice complexion can usually take it for gr read more
Anti-Bacterial Products May Promote Antibiotic Resistance
Grab Some Health News. | July 4th 2008 by Kathleen
It is bad enough news that antibiotics used to treat infections are becoming less effective. According to a new study, household disinfectants can also lead to trouble.” With increasing use of cleaning and hygiene products containing QACs (Quaterna read more
Swimming Pools: Summer Fun or Cauldron of Death?
Worried Dad | July 3rd 2008
Summer heat means it's time to head for a relaxing dip in the pool. Not according to a worrying article from WebMD. The biggest dangers are recreational water illnesses (RWIs):RWI refers to any illness or infection caused by organisms that contaminat read more
Microbial Resistance is Futile; The Future Looks Bright Silver
The Robert Scott Bell Show | June 9th 2008 by Robert Scott Bell
Headline: Antibacterial wipes can spread superbugs: study "...many studies have shown that health care workers, including doctors and nurses, often fail to even wash their hands as directed." Do they even teach read more
Chronic Diseases of Degradation Deadlier Than Acute Infections
The Robert Scott Bell Show | May 27th 2008 by Robert Scott Bell
Headline: U.N.: Chronic ailments more deadly than infectious diseases "The most important preventative strategy is education," said Dr. Thomas Aversano, associate professor of cardiology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. By "educat read more
The Razzle-Dazzle That Distracts You From the Vaccine-Autism Link
The Robert Scott Bell Show | May 19th 2008 by Robert Scott Bell
Headline: Court Hears More Claims of Vaccine-Autism Link "...with each passing year, the claim that thimerosal had an important effect on children has become harder to sustain. Its removal has appeared to have no effect on autism read more
Plasmid Cloning animation
Biosolutions | April 14th 2008 by Julian
Process by which a plasmid is used to import recombinant DNA into a host cell for cloning.Many diseases are caused by gene alterations. Our understanding of genetic diseases was greatly increased by information gained from DNA cloning. In DNA cloning read more
A Fatty Acid Synthetase is Necessary for Active TB Infection
Blogging for Bacteriophage | April 11th 2008 by PhageDude
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the most common infectious agent in the world. Nearly 1/3 of the world population is infected, and a drastic number of these are increasingly antibiotic resistant. MDR-TB and XDR-TB are becoming more commonplace everyday read more
Wild Bacteria That Eat Our Antibiotics? Of Course!
Blogging for Bacteriophage | April 10th 2008 by PhageDude
Antibiotics were invented by bacteria and fungi during thier conception in this universe. Used to control microbial niche environments, it wasn't until 1928 that Fleming (and subsequently Florey and Chain) began the widespread use of the antibiotic p read more
Resistance Building
Science Student | March 6th 2008 by Nate
A battle is being waged between scientists and microbes. The scientists, with their laboratories, experiments, and intellect, are being matched blow-for-blow by microbes, single-celled organisms with a simple yet highly matable genome. Spontaneous DN read more
Microbial Defenses
Science Student | March 4th 2008 by Nate
My post two days ago served as an introduction to antibiotics and the problem of microbial resistance to treatment with antibiotics. Today’s post takes the next logical step and describes the various mechanisms that bacteria use to resist our antib read more
Microbial Strike and Counterstrike
Science Student | March 3rd 2008 by Nate
In the late 1920s, a quiet and reserved scientist made one of the greatest breakthroughs in medicine. Alexander Fleming had been anxious to leave his laboratory behind and start his vacation. He was never very clean, and left behind some dirty Petri read more
detection of the effectiveness of antibiotics
Molecular Biology and Genetics | November 15th 2007 by onuri
Antibiotics, one class of antimicrobials, are used in the treatment of microbial infections. They have no effect against viruses, fungi, or parasites. Antibiotics are generally small molecules with a molecular weight less than 2000. They are not enz read more
minimum inhibitory concentration
Molecular Biology and Genetics | October 31st 2007 by onuri
The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) is the amount of the agent required to inhibit growth of the testorganism. MIC's are often determined by the tube dilution technique, which uses various concentrations ofantimicrobial agents in medium contai read more
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