WSU BIOL209 Microbiology

Interesting use of Listeria to treat pancreatic cancer!

Resistance not limited to antibiotics, we are seeing this more and more in the veterinary world with anthemintics and insecticides.

Researchers have recently found a novel mode of interaction between Salmonella, a foodborne pathogen, and the bacteria that live in our guts. Fecal bacteria collected from healthy donors effectively inactivated Salmonella, when they were allowed close contact. Mathematical modelling of this interaction is now being used to find new ways of controlling Salmonella.

The study didn't completely answer the question that circumcised men are less likely to contract HIV, but the coauthors suggest that the abundance of bacteria and unknown anaerobic bacteria can contribute to inflammation, which can contribute to infection of HIV within the foreskin.

The cinnamon challenge leading to scarring of the lungs and causing teens to use inhalers after participating in the challenge when before an inhaler wasn't needed.