Word: bacterias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the presence of the standard lime-green army surplus shower curtains we all have, there is always a rather large, cold, deep, slimy, bacteria-ridden puddle in front of my shower. It's rather gross, to say the least. However, unlike Moses and his pals, there's no deity around to part the waters...
...third major contribution to the study of enzymes looked at the resistance of bacteria to penicillin. Bacteria develop a resistance to penicillin by producing an enzyme that makes the antibiotic harmless...
...type of lipoprotein believed to aggravate blockage of coronary arteries. Other research found that elderly black men are twice as likely to develop tuberculosis as white men living under the same socioeconomic conditions. Perhaps, scientists speculated, genetic differences affected the body's ability to knock out the bacteria...
...based diagnostic tests are also under development for Lyme disease, tuberculosis and viral meningitis. Present tests for tuberculosis, which involve culturing and growing the bacteria, take up to a month to confirm a diagnosis. PCR can do the job in a few hours. Current tests are unable to distinguish viral meningitis quickly from the far more dangerous bacterial form of the disease, which is most common in infancy. As a result, all babies found to have meningitis are treated as if they had the more lethal form. With a PCR diagnosis, those with viral meningitis could be spared unnecessary hospitalization...
...guiding principle of standard infection control is to act as if everyone and everything is infected with something -- whether it be Staphylococcus bacteria, tetanus toxins or the AIDS virus. That is why instruments should be sterilized in an autoclave, physicians should change gloves or wash hands between patients, and disposable swabs, syringes and other items should not be reused. Although the CDC's disease detectives are still not sure what went wrong in Acer's office, they are zeroing in on just such a breach in infection control...