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...revolutionary time in microbial science,” said Jeffrey Professor of Biology Colleen Cavanaugh, one of the organizers of the symposium. “We now have the means to go after the bacteria and microorganisms that cannot be cultured...
Schrag added that the new interdisciplinary program—enforced by the other science initiatives cropping up on campus—will give students a way to see the bigger pictures in scientific research and take the “bacteria out of the test tube,” Schrag said...
According to the MDPH, Neisseria meningitidis, the bacteria that causes meningococcal meningitis, is spread through saliva during kissing, sharing of food, drinks or cigarettes, and sneezing or coughing...
According to the MDPH, five to 15 percent of people carry the bacteria that causes meningococcal meningitis in their noses and throats but do not become infected...
Nearly 10% of Americans who are admitted to a hospital pick up an infection while they are there. Sometimes the culprit is a germ that they've brought with them to the hospital--typically some bacteria on the skin that follow the path of a needle or catheter into the body. But most hospital infections are transmitted from one patient to another by doctors, nurses and other health-care workers. No, doctors and nurses aren't carrying around vials of disease-causing bugs and cracking them open at bedside. Often the germs are hitching a ride on the hands...