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Antibiotics Defined

Substances that destroy or inhibit the growth of microorganisms, particularly disease-causing bacteria.

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Uganda: More Diseases Surface As Bush Meat Eating Rises

Published August 20, 2008, 2:06 am, AllAfrica.com

As high beef and fish prices push populations to rely on home reared chicken and bush meat, the likelihood of them contracting zoonotic diseases increases in a continent not adequately prepared for bird flu, ebola and other animal-spread diseases outbreaks.

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Fruit juice can stop medicines working

Published August 20, 2008, 12:50 am, Daily Mirror

Dose is only half as effective

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Malibu dentist aims to ban mercury amalgam fillings

Published August 19, 2008, 2:14 pm, The Malibu Times

The FDA has recently reversed its stance on the fillings containing mercury.

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Bacteria may help farmed lobsters ward off infection

Published August 19, 2008, 12:00 am, New Kerala

Sydney, Aug 19 : A beneficial bacteria, which wild rock lobster larvae host naturally, could help their farmed cousins ward off infections and remove a large barrier to commercial production.

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MSU dedicates new labs, honors Jutila

Published August 18, 2008, 9:31 pm, Bozeman Daily Chronicle

He could easily have ended up a dairy farmer, like his dad, or a lead and silver miner, like his high school friends who grew up around Wallace, Idaho.

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Researchers uncover attack mechanism of illness-inducing bacterium found in shellfish

Published August 18, 2008, 2:42 pm, News-Medical-Net

An infectious ocean-dwelling bacterium found in oysters and other shellfish kills its host's cells by causing them to burst, providing the invader with a nutrient-rich meal, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.

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Growing attractions

Published August 18, 2008, 3:28 am, Centre Daily Times

If you think you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, you should make plans to go to Ag Progress Days.

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UW chemist finding ways to slow pace of bacteria

Published August 17, 2008, 7:29 pm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

When bacteria start talking, bad things happen.

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Next Generation Antibiotics

Published August 17, 2008, 2:24 pm, Express India

The antibiotics that you gulp down to ward off serious infections could well trace their origins to frog skin, alligators' blood, wastewater treatment plants or algae and micro-organisms found in the seabed.

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Synthetic Biology Is Bearing Fruit: Blockers Against Blockers

Published August 15, 2008, 3:29 pm, Science Daily

Synthetic Biology is bearing fruit: the tuberculosis pathogen can be fooled by a widely used food additive. The WHO records around nine million new cases of the disease each year, and about 50 million people are infected with a strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is resistant to the antibiotics Isoniazid and Rifampicin.

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  • Probiotics Counter Antibiotics: When it comes to a healthly gut, the use of antibiotics is equivalent to throwing the baby out with the bath water. Eradicating pathogenic bacteria with courses of antibiotic drugs also kills off normal intestinal flora. Antibiotic-ass ociated disruption of gastrointestin al flora tract can lead to diarrhea, dehydration and mineral-salt imbalance, particularly among small children. Replacement with beneficial "friendly " bacteria, called probiotics, is in order. Because the 25- to 35-foot-long digestive tract contains some 400 species of bacteria, totaling some 100 billion organisms, repopulation is a considerable task. Favorable bacteria such as Lactobacillus and Bifidus counter the sanitizing effects of antibiotic therapy. Recent scientific studies support this application.

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