For a healthy microbiome, eating your greens is a surer bet ...

The discovery of antibiotics revolutionized medicine in the 20th century, saving countless lives. However, the emergence of resistant bacteria has quickly become a new challenge. One key factor in ...

Pharmaceutical giant Merck is buying Verona Pharma, a company that concentrates its efforts on respiratory diseases, in an ...

As for most living organisms, iron is also essential for bacteria. "Iron plays a central role in enzymes and the respiratory chain of living organisms, for example," explains Herzog. Particularly in ...

Malfunctions in the respiratory chain lead to serious and often fatal diseases that can affect skeletal muscle and nerve cells, as well as the heart.

Recently, multiplex polymerase chain reaction (mPCR) assays capable of rapidly detecting multiple bacterial respiratory pathogens and resistance genes have emerged. However, their clinical utility in ...

Measuring bacterial respiration showed that cells lacking MftG consumed only around 45% of the oxygen consumed by the parent cells. This indicates that fewer electrons were being delivered to the ...

From February through April, 1966, specimens for viral, bacterial and mycoplasmal culture were obtained from the throats of 69 patients suspected of having respiratory infections and from 28 ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of lower respiratory tract infections in children under two years old, resulting in significant morbidity and a heavy economic burden on ...

Researchers have identified how a common bacterium is able to manipulate the human immune system during respiratory infections and cause persistent illness.

Further research may investigate approaches to improve immune system’s ability to detect and eliminate H. influenzae before it can cause further damage.