Parasites may be present in all municipal wastewaters. Ascaris, Entamoeba histolytica, helminths, and other parasitic types have been recovered from wastewaters and biosolids. Under optimum conditions ...

Scientists have discovered the mechanism by which the bacterial pathogen Shigella flexneri, the causative agent of dysentery, manipulates molecular activity to assure its survival against its host's ...

A new study reveals that hundreds of types of bacteria and fungi survive in the planetary boundary layer despite ultraviolet ...

Bioterrorism agents are pathogenic organisms or biological toxins that are used to produce death and disease in humans, animals, or plants for terrorist purposes. These agents are typically ...

Virginia Tech researchers have learned how bacteria manipulate molecules to infect the host organism. Daniel Capelluto and ...

In bacteria, these groups are called pathogenicity islands, and they can be part of a chromosome or found on separate plasmids. These islands often contain genes required for the pathogen to enter ...

Organisms judged as "potentially pathogenic" were found more frequently on soft toys (30%) than on hard toys (5%) (odds ratio, 8.14; 95% confidence range, 0.74-107.49). The authors cite a 1 in 10 ...

Even the microwave oven in your kitchen is not immune to bacteria. The irradiating environment ... “Some of them are pathogenic, and one must clean the microwave as much as any other kitchen ...

Sep. 12, 2024 — The movement of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the surface of the ocean, where it is in active contact with the atmosphere, to the deep ocean, where it can be sequestered away for ...

In a study led by Sarah Worthan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the Behringer Lab at Vanderbilt University, scientists ...