Scientists have identified a way to develop a vaccine against Chlamydia trachomatis, the most prevalent sexually transmitted bacterial infection in the world.Boffins identified plasmid-deficient derivatives of the Chlamydia trachomatis strains that when investigated in an animal model of genital tract infection, failed to cause disease.
The researchers now believe that this may serve as a vaccine [...]
Biomedical researchers at Boston University’s College of Engineering say that they have discovered a previously unknown chains of events occurring in bacteria, suggesting thereby that they may have moved one step closer to developing better drugs capable of defeating “superbugs”, bacteria that have developed resistance to common antibiotics.At present, three classes of bactericidal antibiotics [...]
Bacteria that thrive in oxygen starved environments have been used successfully to target cancer tumours, delivering gene therapy based anti-cancer treatments, according to scientists speaking today at the Society for General Microbiology’s 161st Meeting at the University of Edinburgh, UK, which runs from 3-6 September 2007.For about half of cancer sufferers our traditional treatments [...]
Bacteria that live symbiotically inside the blood-sucking pests called red poultry mites could be a new and effective target to prevent the spread of Salmonella and similar pathogens in chickens, turkeys and other table birds, according to scientists speaking today at the Society for General Microbiology’s 161st Meeting at the University of Edinburgh, UK, [...]
A study conducted at the University of California, Santa Cruz has revealed that the bacteria that cause brucellosis can sense light, and use the information to regulate their virulence.Reported in the journal Science, the discovery comes after 120 years of research into the disease, which causes abortions in livestock and fevers in humans.
The researchers say [...]