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According to researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in work presented at the Society for General Microbiology's Spring Meeting in Edinburgh, new work on artificially constructed viruses offers the hope of effective vaccines for devastating diseases in the future. |
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According to research due to be presented at a Society for General Microbiology meeting at UMIST in Manchester, potato blight causes worldwide losses of £3 billion every year, but scientists are only just discovering how it infects potato plants, |
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At the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, gardening enthusiasts were keen to learn how some microbes can harm their garden plants. The Society for General Microbiology’s exhibit, ‘Plants and microbes, a deadly duel’, also impressed the judges, who awarded it a silver medal in the Lindley Range. |
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The Microbiology Today, the quarterly magazine of the Society for General Microbiology, looks at vital role that microscopy plays to advance our understanding of the lives of some fascinating micro-organisms. |
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TB testing in children is crucial as the disease can rapidly spread from the lungs to other organs, such as the brain, spine and kidneys, leading to life threatening conditions which particularly affect children. A simple blood test to analyse and identify proteins circulating in the blood of infected children could provide the answer. |
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According to scientists, cystitis and the other urinary tract infections suffered by one in five women may be caused by bacteria using a rudimentary form of computing power to co-ordinate their attacks and act as a genetic memory. |
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Scientists heard at the Society for General Microbiology’s meeting, in York that most parasites hide in the cells of the body while they do their dirty work, but the culprits which cause African sleeping sickness openly multiply in the blood, while continually changing their coats for disguise. |
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Society for General Microbiology researchers say food poisoning bugs in sewage sludge which is spread on fields are destroyed so quickly that they pose practically no risk. |
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Researchers have discovered why superbugs like MRSA are dominating our hospitals, when accepted wisdom says that the cost for bacteria of competing against non-resistant strains should be too great in most circumstances. |
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Scientists in Germany have developed a breakthrough in the production of biofuels. Research published in the Microbiology, a Society for General Microbiology journal, describes how specially engineered bacteria could be used to make fuel completely from food crops. |
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An article in Microbiology Today reports that classifications of new bacteria have been made easier after a study found that ‘gold standard’ tests used by microbiologists should be interpreted more stringently. |
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The Federation of Infection Societies conference heard that plans to make fair decisions about who gets scarce treatment if bird ‘flu spreads to humans are being prepared by Doctors, nurses, ethics experts and scientists. |
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Africa has 10% of the worldwide population but is also home 70% of the world’s people who are infected with HIV, and 85% of all the people who have both HIV and tuberculosis. Significant increases in tuberculosis are also being found in Western Europe, including the UK. |
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The Federation of Infection Societies conference in Cardiff heard that cases of Syphilis are on the rise in Britain, putting infants at risk of dying by having the disease passed on by their mothers during pregnancy. |
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New research presented by the Society for General Microbiology, suggests that dangerous multi-drug-resistant bacteria are also developing immunity to hospital disinfectants and antiseptics. |
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An article in the Microbiology (The Society for General Microbiology's quarterly magazine) states that the natural ability of viruses to infect and destroy cells is being used by scientists to kill cancerous tumours. |
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Beads, nylon strips and hospital stitching thread covered in viruses might prove to be an effective weapon against the hospital acquired superbug MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), according to research. |
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A virus that causes brain infections is now being tamed to treat brain tumours, scientists heard at the Society for General Microbiology's 158th Meeting at the University of Warwick, UK. |
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Elderly patients, who are most at risk from hospital bugs which cause diarrhoea, could be having their health endangered by the widespread use of some disinfectants, according to scientists presenting research at the Society for General Microbiology's 158th Meeting at the University of Warwick, UK. |
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Superbugs stuck in the noses of patients, visitors and staff could be causing the spread of the feared multiple antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA in hospitals, scientists heard at the Society for General Microbiology's 158th Meeting at the University of Warwick, UK. |
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Asthma, eczema, bowel disease and other medical problems, which can be helped by taking probiotics, foods containing friendly bacteria, may be improved even further according to research announced at the Society for General Microbiology's 158th Meeting at the University of Warwick, UK. |
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Consuming strawberries, chocolate and tea in excess can all lead to kidney stones, but the danger might be prevented by probiotics, according to medical researchers speaking at the Society for General Microbiology's 158th Meeting at the University of Warwick, UK. |
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Making vaccines against bird 'flu is difficult and many problems need to be overcome before production begins of a vaccine for the disease, according to an article in the issue of Microbiology Today, the quarterly magazine of the Society for General Microbiology. |
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Drug resistant tuberculosis may be on the increase due to a limited repertoire of effective drugs, which need to be given in combination, and the inability of some TB bacteria to repair their own DNA properly, leading to faster mutations, according to scientists presenting their research at the Society for General Microbiology's 158th Meeting at the University of Warwick, UK. |
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Feeding the bugs lurking in potting compost or soil some extra carbon rations to kick start their activity can boost healthy crop growth in an environmentally friendly way, biologists heard at the Society for General Microbiology's 158th Meeting at the University of Warwick, UK. |
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