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    Bacterial toxins cause deadly heart disease

    University of Iowa researchers have discovered what causes the lethal effects of staphylococcal infective endocarditis – a serious bacterial infection of heart valves that kills approximately 20,000 Americans each year. According to the UI study, the culprits are superantigens — toxins produced...
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    Toxins Released By Bacterial Infections And Venom Removed By Nanosponges

    Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have invented a "nanosponge" capable of safely removing a broad class of dangerous toxins from the bloodstream - including toxins produced by MRSA, E. coli, poisonous snakes and bees. These nanosponges, which thus far have been studied in...
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    Researchers Identify Two Bacterial Communities Associated With Trichomonas Infection

    A parasite that commonly causes sexually transmitted infections among women "cultivates" specific bacteria, according to new research carried out by David H. Martin, MD, Professor and Chief of Infectious Diseases at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans and his team. The parasite, called...
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    Don’t Use Vaseline On Your Vajayjay: It Could Cause Bacterial Vaginosis

    A new study found that women who used Vaseline or other petroleum jelly vaginally had an increased risk of the common vaginal infection bacterial vaginosis. More »</p>Don’t Use Vaseline On Your Vajayjay: It Could Cause Bacterial Vaginosis is a post from Blisstree - Get tips on healthy living...
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    Rethinking Bacterial Persistence

    It's often difficult to completely eliminate a bacterial infection with antibiotics; part of the population usually manages to survive. We've known about this phenomenon for quite some time, dating back nearly to the discovery of penicillin. For more than 50 years, scientists have believed that...
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    Key Proteins In Mucus Prevent Bacterial Adhesion To Surfaces, Could Help Prevent Grow

    Slimy layers of bacterial growth, known as biofilms, pose a significant hazard in industrial and medical settings. Once established, biofilms are very difficult to remove, and a great deal of research has gone into figuring out how to prevent and eradicate them. Results from a recent MIT study...
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    Fecal Transplant Saves Young Woman From Bacterial Infection

    Kaitlin Hunter is only 20 years old, but she's already been through a life-threatening car accident that left her with a colon infection that was finally cured by a poop transplant from her mother.** **No, she is not a character on last night's season premier of 'Private Practice'. More »Post...
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    Completely New Way To Fight Bacterial Infections Using 'Naked Darth Vader' Approach

    Rather than trying to kill bacteria outright with drugs, Universite de Montreal researchers have discovered a way to disarm bacteria that may allow the body's own defense mechanisms to destroy them. "To understand this strategy one could imagine harmful bacteria being like Darth Vader, and the...
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    Bacterial Protection From Allergy

    If infants encounter a wide range of bacteria they are less at risk of developing allergic disease later in life. This is the conclusion of research from the University of Copenhagen, which suggests completely new factors in many modern lifestyle diseases. Oversensitivity diseases, or...
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    Bacterial vaginosis? Pregnancy? Can I still have sex?

    I had a bacterial vaginosis infection about a week ago. I've been on meds and I believe its gone but I have a few days left on them. I'm wondering if its okay to have sex? From what I've read its fine to because it can't spread to men, however I'm pregnant and I'm worried it'll make my infection...
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    Detecting Bacterial Infection Using Fluorescing Polymers

    Researchers at the University of Sheffield have developed polymers that fluoresce in the presence of bacteria, paving the way for the rapid detection and assessment of wound infection using ultra-violet light. When contained in a gel and applied to a wound, the level of fluorescence detected...
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    Caught In The Act: Bacterial Protein Secreting Sticky Appendages

    New atomic-level "snapshots" published in the June 2, 2011, issue of Nature reveal details of how bacteria such as E. coli produce and secrete sticky appendages called pili, which help the microbes attach to and infect human cells. "These crystal structures unravel a complex choreography of...
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    when mutagenizing bacterial cells with uv light the dish should be shaken...

    ...gently,why is that? genetic
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    Are petri dishes only used for bacterial growth..what about viruses?

    Thanks in advance:)
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    Do I have bacterial vaginosis?

    I have a clearish gray discharge that comes out of my vagina little by little each day. It's not itchy or irritating but it does have a smell that lasts all day everyday. The smell is pungent and nasty. I'm only 15 years old and I'm a virgin so sex isn't the reason
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    An Extra Layer Of Protection For Bacterial Spores Discovered By Biologists

    Bacterial spores, the most resistant organisms on earth, carry an extra coating of protection previously undetected, a team of microbiologists reports in the latest issue of the journal Current Biology. Their findings offer additional insight into why spores of the bacteria that cause botulism...
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    Could I get yeast or bacterial like this?

    I finally wento to the doctor, and he told me I had a yeast infection. Phew, glad to finally know what I have. Lol Anyways. About 9 weeks ago I bought this jeans that were fairly tight and uncomfortable, and were low rise, but I wore a belt. It was a little weird to walk in, hard to sit in, and...
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    Bacterial Vaginosis diagnosis?

    I just came home from the gyno & she told me that I have Bacterial Vaginosis. She didn't really tell me how you get it, although she did tell me that it's not classified as an STD. Still, I feel kinda nasty. Anyway, she prescribed Metrogel.. how does this work? I feel really super nasty lol. I'm...
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    Do you think I have bacterial, or yeast?

    About 8 weeks ago I got this dark yellow-green discharge twice, and both times I was wearing my only pair of jeans which were tight and uncomfortable. I never got it again, and itching followed. About 6 weeks ago I got a blob of white discharge. Never happened again. Now all I have is itching...
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    Bacterial infection, PID, and infertility?

    A few months ago I was diagnosed with a bacterial infection I think it was bacterial vaginosis, anyway they said it wasn't a STD. I think I had it for a long time before that... and I think it either never fully went a way or came back... and I read that it can lead to PID, which can cause...
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