Dr. Sen Pei Discusses Challenges in Forecasting Antimicrobial Resistance
In this interview, Dr. Sen Pei discusses the challenges in forecasting antimicrobial resistance, the focus of a paper published this ...
Tag: E. coli
MIT Researchers Make Progress on Antibiotic Resistance Under DTRA-JSTO Research Program
Researchers are making significant progress in antibiotic resistance under the Discovery of Medical Countermeasures Against New and Emerging threats (DOMANE) ...
Salad Bars and Water Systems are Easy Targets for Bioterrorists – and America’s Monitoring System is Woefully Inadequate
In October 2019, a House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee held a hearing entitled “Defending the Homeland from Bioterrorism: Are We ...
Romaine-Linked E. coli Outbreak Enters Its Second Month
Federal officials predict that the outbreak, linked to romaine lettuce, will continue for several weeks. It is the largest American ...
Foodborne Pathogens: Colorimetric and Electrochemical Detection Using Printed Paper
In a new study in Analytical Chemistry, scientists report that they are closing in on a way to use a ...
The Up-Hill Battle of Antibiotic Resistance in the World of Infection Prevention
When the news that a woman in Pennsylvania was found to be carrying a unique strain of E. coli was ...
Salmonella, 0157, STEC Strain Survival Variability Studies
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced intentions to award a sole-source contract to the Virginia Tech Eastern Shore ...
Food Safety: PulseNet’s 20-Year History of Saving Lives
A national network of public health laboratories prevents an estimated 270,000 cases of food poisoning and saves half a billion ...
CDC Revamps Foodborne Outbreak Database
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released a redesigned online tool making it easier to search data ...
Antibody’s Unusual Abilities Might Inspire Vaccine Strategies
The recent discovery of a novel antibody that works in an unusual way might inspire ideas for designing more effective ...
Funding for Food Protection Rapid Response Teams
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine (OFVM) has ...
FDA, HHS Award to Diatherix
DIATHERIX Laboratories, Inc., has been awarded a second federal contract to continue its work in the development of methodologies for ...
Global Infection Outbreaks on the Rise
Enterovirus. Tuberculosis. Cholera. Measles. Various strains of the flu and hepatitis. The number of infectious disease outbreaks and the number ...
FDA Clears New Targets for Luminex GI Pathogen Panel
Luminex Corporation this week announced it has received U.S. FDA clearance to add three new targets to its xTAG Gastrointestinal ...
MIT Researchers Battling Superbugs with Gene Editing
In recent years, new strains of bacteria have emerged that resist even the most powerful antibiotics. Each year, these superbugs, ...
Antimicrobial Strategy Silences Resistant Gene in Pathogens
Researchers from Oregon State University have synthesized a molecule that can silence the gene responsible for severe antibiotic resistance in ...
Preventing Foodborne Illness with Cinnamon
Seeking ways to prevent some of the most serious foodborne illnesses caused by pathogenic bacteria, two Washington State University scientists ...
Bacterial Reporters Pave the Way to Living Diagnostics and Therapeutics
In the tightly woven ecosystem of the human gut, trillions of bacteria compete with each other on a daily basis ...
Engineering E. coli to Resist Ionizing Radiation Damage
Capitalizing on the ability of an organism to evolve in response to punishment from a hostile environment, scientists have coaxed ...
1 in 3 Patients with Bloodstream Infections Given Inappropriate Therapy
Growing drug resistance, a high prevalence of S. aureus bacteria and ineffective antibiotics prescribed to one in three patients are among the ...
