Word: bacterias
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Meister said Berg inspired him to change hisfield of graduate studies from physics to theinvestigation of how bacteria swim...
Patients who suffer from pulmonary infections or painful skin burns caused by staphylococcus aureus, a pathogenic bacteria which sometimes infects hospital patients after surgeries, may have even more to worry about...
...December 6, 1997, issue of The Lancet, an international medical journal published in Great Britain, Dr. Keiichi Hiramatsu of Tokyo's Juntendo Hospital reported that 20 percent of all staphylococcus aureus has become resistant to vancomycin, the only universal drug for the bacteria. It afflicts nearly one million of the 23 million Americans who undergo surgery annually, especially infants and the elderly...
Staphylococcus aureus, an "elite force" in the bacteria battalion, is an adaptable organism that has always developed antibiotic resistance with haste. For example, staphylococcus aureus becomes resistant to erythromycin, a protein inhibitor, after only seven to ten days. Resistance to penicillin developed a few years after its commercial production in 1941, and resistance to four or more antibiotics became the norm for 40 percent of the strains by the end of the 1950s...
...bacteria leads to a wide variety of bacterial pathologies, from fatal pulmonary infections to painful skin burns. Blood infection, infection of the heart valves, infection of the lungs, meningitis (invasion of the spinal cord), osteomyelitis (infection of bone marrow), septic arthritis and perinephric abscess may also result. Many of these conditions can lead to death...