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Easy method to detect life-threatening foodborne infections found
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 6 (ANI): Researchers have discovered a new, ultrasensitive, light-based method (chemiluminescence) for the direct detection of salmonella and listeria monocytogenes, responsible for life-threatening foodborne infections.
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Clean, germ-free childhood makes children prone to Leukemia: Study
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 5 (ANI): Parents go to any limit to protect their little ones from germs! A new study, however, has highlighted that a childhood free from germs followed by infections later in life makes children prone to childhood leukemia.
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Goat milk formula can be good for infant gut health
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 30 (ANI): Goat milk formula may have strong prebiotic and anti-infection properties, that could protect infants against gastrointestinal infections, recent findings suggest.
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Cannabidiol shows promise as new antibiotic
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 24 (ANI): Cannabidiol, the main non-psychoactive chemical compound extracted from cannabis and hemp plant, is found to be active against Gram-positive bacteria including those cause serious infections, with a potency similar to established antibiotics, finds a rec
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Do plants really transmit superbugs to people?
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 23 (ANI): Antibiotic-resistance infections are a big challenge to public health, food safety, and economy.
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Dentists prescribe antibiotics unnecessarily 81 pc of the time: Study
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Jun 1 (ANI): Antibiotics prescribed by dentists as prevention against infections are 81 per cent of the times unnecessary.
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Starving fungus can help beat drug-resistant fungal infection
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [USA], May 26 (ANI): Fungus that causes infection and is increasingly resistant to medicine, can be treated by starving it, researchers suggest.
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Drug-resistant fungal infections could be treated by starving fungus: Stud
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 25 (ANI): Fungal infection resistant to drugs could be treated by limiting fungus' access to its feed, critical for the organism's survival, research has found.
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Researchers develop electric field-based dressing to treat wound infection
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], May 18 (ANI): Bacterial infection, slimy and thin film of bacteria that forms on wounds, can be treated with the use of an electric field-based dressing, a study has claimed.
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New findings could be used as vaccination strategy for sexually transmitte
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 18 (ANI): Researchers have shown how skin vaccination can generate protective CD8 T-cells that are recruited to the genital tissues and could be used as a vaccination strategy for sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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Now, a new phone app detects ear infections in children
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 16 (ANI): Researchers have created a new smartphone app, which can detect fluid behind the eardrum by using a piece of paper, the phone's microphone and a speaker.
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Study finds why UTI occurs more in postmenopausal women
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C [U.S.A], May 11 (ANI): A study suggests that why Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) has a high recurrence rate in postmenopausal women. It is said that several species of bacteria can invade the bladder walls during that phase in women.
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