NDM-1 is an enzyme produced by some bacteria which makes them resistant to carbapenem antibiotics.
Some bacteria, including tuberculosis, are able to invade because the body launches the 'wrong' immune response, say researchers.
Some bacteria, it turned out, produce polyketides in an assembly-line fashion in much the same way that General Motors produces cars.
Meanwhile, Cubist's injectible entrant, Cidecin, is incredibly powerful against some bacteria but will be useful mainly for infections that occur in hospitals.
The challenge lies in the fact that some cancer cells are resistant to chemotherapy, not unlike the way some bacteria are resistant to antibiotics.
Some bacteria had already become resistant to penicillin by the mid-1940s, but it wasn't a big problem because so many new antibiotics were emerging from the lab.
Some bacteria living in soils breathe metals in order to live and as a by-product of their growth, they affect the soils surrounding then, chemically changing the minerals.
Changes in the population of bacteria, such as removal of some of the good bacteria or replacement with some bad bacteria, can lead to a variety of health problems, especially inflammation of the bowel, diarrhea and pain.
Some good bacteria are absolutely necessary for overall health and not just bowel health.
In normal good health, some bad bacteria that cause disease are crowded out by good bacteria.
The brick-size rock, discovered in Antarctica 15 years ago, contains magnetic crystals that appear identical to microscopic crystals produced by some earthly bacteria.
It means that researchers have found that some earthly bacteria that live in literally poisonous environments are adapted to find the presence of arsenic dramatically less lethal, and that they can even incorporate arsenic into their routine, familiar chemistry.
However, some strains of the bacteria have now acquired some resistance to one or more of the antibiotics commonly used to treat them.
He said this was a "first step" towards "eventually using these bacteria as prevention or treatment of obesity and Type-2 diabetes" and that some form of bacteria-based therapy would be used "in the near future".
Second, the researchers sequenced only RNA, not DNA, meaning they might have missed some types of bacteria.
Although the procedure is routine, it is common for some of the bacteria to survive it and therefore for infections to re-emerge shortly after treatment.
The agency added that a lack of sunshine had also failed to improve the situation as the sun's UV rays would usually kill some of the bacteria found in the sea.
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The team will work with luciferase, an enzyme common in fireflies as well as some glowing fungi and bacteria.
Some strains of the bacteria can cause severe diarrhoea, abdominal cramps and fever, and can cause fatal kidney failure in children.
Another is amikacin, which does not work for bone infections and has not been effective against some strains of the bacteria.
"It is possible that through the ventilation system some of the anthrax bacteria could have been disseminated to other parts of the office, " Daschle said.
Gruber knew all this, but he also knew that some lactobacilli, the bacteria used to make yogurt, naturally excrete just the left-handed version of lactic acid.
The urgency of antibiotic development is enhanced by the emergence of new and deadly bacteria strains, usually called CRE, a term that includes bacteria like some strains of KPC or NDM that are antibiotic resistant.
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Sometimes the bacteria are external, but in some cases, the person is already carrying the bacteria on them or even inside them.
Some 70% of the bacteria that cause hospital infections are resistant to at least one antibiotic.
Such drugs have side-effects, however: not only do they lead to antibiotic-resistant bacteria, but some, such as metronidazole, can be dangerous in their own right.
This allows scientists to glimpse the shape of virus and bacteria components and get some insight into how they function.
For example, some think that the mix of bacteria in a person's gut can affect his chances of becoming obese.
Some will be vaccinated with the bacteria, which although from the same family as the tuberculosis bacterium, does not cause any disease.
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