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30,000-year-old giant virus 'comes back to life' - BBC News - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...science-environment-26387276
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  • Nate Scheibe on 11 Sep 15
     
    This is interesting...and terrifying.
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The Secret to Stopping Toxic Fungus: Moose Drool | TakePart - 0 views

www.takepart.com/...opping-toxic-fungusmoose-drool enzyme fungus ungulate
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  • Nate Scheibe on 11 Aug 14
     
    I am going to file this under "life finds a way".
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Congress: End the Overuse of Antibiotics on Factory Farms - Food & Water Watch - 0 views

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  • Nate Scheibe on 01 Jun 14
     
    Here is an opportunity to urge your elected officials to do something concerning the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture.
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Dangerous 'post-antibiotic era' coming, WHO warns | CTV News - 0 views

www.ctvnews.ca/...s-in-landmark-report-1.1799018
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  • Nate Scheibe on 02 May 14
     
    I think the title speaks for itself...chilling.
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Microbe Counts and Transgenerational Epigenetics | On Science Blogs - 0 views

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  • Nate Scheibe on 13 Dec 13
     
    A funny and interesting blog post on exactly how much of our body is (or is not) microbial in nature.
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Cold, salty and promiscuous: Gene-shuffling microbes dominate Antarctica's Deep Lake - 1 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...130930152743.htm antarctica cold
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  • Nate Scheibe on 30 Sep 13
     
    An interesting article on bacteria that grow where few other things will.
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Listeria outbreak linked to cheese; 1 dead, 4 sickened - CNN.com - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html outbreak cheese
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  • Nate Scheibe on 04 Jul 13
     
    Here is an outbreak that hits close to home.
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Sick of Strep Throat -- With New Antibiotics, Pediatricians Fight Proxy War on Bugs - 1 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...1007-sick_of_strep_throat.htm antibiotics throat
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  • Nate Scheibe on 13 Jun 13
     
    Am I understanding this correctly...some Streptococci are "resistant" to certain drugs only because other bacteria are?
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Caltech Wins Toilet Challenge | Caltech - 0 views

www.caltech.edu/...caltech-wins-toilet-challenge bacteria toilet
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  • Nate Scheibe on 22 May 13
     
    "According to the World Health Organization, 2.5 billion people around the globe are without access to sanitary toilets, which results in the spread of deadly diseases. Every year, 1.5 million people-mostly those under the age of five-die from diarrhea."
  • Nate Scheibe on 22 May 13
     
    This is the infrastructure side of many of the microbes (and more importantly the diseases associated with them) we learned about.
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Resistance to last-line antibiotic makes bacteria resistant to immune system - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...130521011230.htm resistance genes antibiotic bacteria
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  • Nate Scheibe on 21 May 13
     
    An interesting article on cross-resistance.
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Alga borrows genes to beat the heat, acid and toxic metals | Life | Science News - 0 views

www.sciencenews.org/...the_heat_acid_and_toxic_metals genes acid metals life
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  • Nate Scheibe on 08 May 13
     
    This is an interesting article about eukaryotes engaging in gene transfer with bacteria and archaea to survive in extreme environments.
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Microbes flourish at deepest ocean site | Life | Science News - 0 views

www.sciencenews.org/...flourish_at_deepest_ocean_site ocean life
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  • Nate Scheibe on 08 May 13
     
    This gives "the ubiquity of bacteria" a whole new meaning. It is very cool that life can exist at the extremes.
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Genetic fossils betray hepatitis B's ancient roots | Life | Science News - 0 views

www.sciencenews.org/...ray_hepatitis_Bs_ancient_roots ancient hepatitis
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  • Nate Scheibe on 08 May 13
     
    I guess I never really gave thought to how old a virus is...interesting.
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Tigecycline Versus Levofloxacin in Hospitalized Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumo... - 0 views

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...PMC3601338 pneumonia
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  • Nate Scheibe on 23 Apr 13
     
    Reference for presentation.
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Efficacy and safety of tigecycline versus levofloxacin for community-acquired pneumonia - 0 views

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...PMC2753558 pneumonia
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  • Nate Scheibe on 23 Apr 13
     
    Reference for presentation
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Etiology and factors contributing to the severity... [Intern Med. 2013] - PubMed - NCBI - 0 views

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...23370738 pneumonia microbiology
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  • Nate Scheibe on 23 Apr 13
     
    Reference for presentation.
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Diagnostic tests for agents of community-acq... [Clin Infect Dis. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI - 0 views

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...21460288 pneumonia microbiology
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  • Nate Scheibe on 23 Apr 13
     
    Reference for presentation
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Vaccines: VPD-VAC/Pneumo/main page - 0 views

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  • Nate Scheibe on 23 Apr 13
     
    Reference for presentation.
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CDC Features - Pneumonia Can Be Prevented - Vaccines Can Help - 0 views

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    References for presentation
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Dozens of Okla. dentist's patients positive for hepatitis - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Health officials in Oklahoma are notifying 57 patients who tested positive for hepatitis C and three patients who tested positive for hepatitis B after visiting oral surgeon W. Scott Harrington's office in Tulsa and a city suburb, according to a joint statement issued Wednesday by the Oklahoma State Department of Health and the Tulsa Health Department.
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  • Dentist's former patient: How could you? "This is a complex investigation," state epidemiologist Kristy Bradley said in the statement. "The next phase will include more in-depth interviews of persons who test positive to determine the likelihood that their exposure is associated with their dental surgical procedure at the Harrington practice. We will certainly continue to keep the public informed as we learn more." Mor
  • Nate Scheibe on 19 Apr 13
     
    A sad follow-up to a story I found earlier in the semester.
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