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Casey Finnerty

Girl, 12, in Critical Condition With Brain-Eating Amoeba - ABC News - 1 views

abcnews.go.com/...eba-case-closes-ark-water-park

microbiology protista

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  • Casey Finnerty on 31 Jul 13
     
    Link to two videos on N. fowleri infections in Arkansas and Minnesota
Casey Finnerty

Girl, 12, battles brain-eating amoeba after lake swim - 0 views

www.usatoday.com/...2599165

microbiology protista

shared by Casey Finnerty on 30 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Naegleria fowleri is a microscopic amoeba that gets to the brain through the nose, typically infecting people who go swimming in freshwater
  • ABC News notes that just one of the 128 people infected with Naegleria fowleri in the US over the last five decades survived.
Nate Scheibe

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.
Nate Scheibe

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?
Casey Finnerty

Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab - life - 09 June 2008 - New Scientist - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...utionary-shift-in-the-lab.html

evolution microbiology

shared by Casey Finnerty on 10 Jun 13 - Cached
  • But sometime around the 31,500th generation, something dramatic happened in just one of the populations - the bacteria suddenly acquired the ability to metabolise citrate, a second nutrient in their culture medium that E. coli normally cannot use.
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