All The Microbiologist articles in Web Issue – Page 59
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NewsMigrating birds have stowaway passengers: invasive ticks could spread novel diseases around the world
Ticks have always travelled on migrating birds — but the rising temperatures of the climate crisis mean they may now survive at their destination, and so could the pathogens they carry.
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NewsClimate change responsible for 19% of today’s rising dengue burden - but Wolbachia offers hope
Climate change is having a massive global impact on dengue transmission, accounting for 19% of the current dengue burden, with a potential to spark an additional 40%-60% spike by 2050 — and by as much as 150%-200% in some areas.
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NewsResearchers uncover Achilles heel of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Scietnists have found that antibiotic resistance comes at a cost. While antibiotic resistance provides some advantages for the bacteria to survive, the team discovered that it’s also linked with a physiological limitation that hinders potential dominance.
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NewsHow do microbiomes influence the study of life?
Researchers from the awardwinning One Health Microbiome Center reveal how holobiont biology underpins a holistic understanding of how life’s forms and functions, from human disease to agricultural output, depend upon the relationships between microbes and hosts.
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NewsMeasles cases surge worldwide, infecting 10.3 million people in 2023
Worldwide, there were an estimated 10.3 million cases of measles in 2023, a 20% increase from 2022, inadequate immunization coverage globally is driving the surge in cases.
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NewsA joint consensus report published on SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance for hospitals and public health laboratories
A joint consensus report that reviews and summarizes standard concepts and best practices for next-generation sequencing methods for SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance.
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NewsNew therapeutic approach for severe COVID-19
A new clinical study shows that an inhibitor of Fas ligand, also called CD95 ligand, led to a faster recovery of COVID-19 patients and reduced mortality.
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NewsNew technique reveals the living microbes in Earth’s driest desert
An international team of researchers describes a new way to separate extracellular from intracellular genetic material, providing better insights into microbial life in low-biomass environments such as the Atacama Desert.
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NewsStudy provides first evidence of African children with severe malaria experiencing partial resistance to world’s most powerful malaria drug
A new study from Uganda provides the first evidence to date that resistance to a lifesaving malaria drug may be emerging in the group of patients that accounts for most of the world’s malaria deaths: young African children suffering from serious infections.
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NewsResearchers reveal why a key tuberculosis drug works against resistant strains
Research has uncovered why a relatively new antibiotic for tuberculosis (TB) works against multidrug-resistant strains, potentially inspiring improved treatments and drug development strategies.
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NewsResearchers develops metagenomic profiling method
Researchers have developed a new k-mer sketching metagenomic profiler, called sylph, that allows scientists to analyze genomic data more quickly and precisely than other profilers.
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NewsClimate change threatens key ocean plankton groups
Planktonic foraminifera species may face unprecedented environmental conditions by the end of this century, potentially surpassing their survival thresholds, with extinctions impacting marine ecosystems and the ocean’s carbon storage capacity.
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NewsChildren’s gut bacteria - and a superfood grain - may hold the key to diarrhea treatment
Diarrhea claims the lives of 500,000 children a year in low- and middle-income countries. Now researchers have linked chronic diarrhea to a specific pattern of gut bacteria, a discovery that could pave the way for new treatments.
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NewsStudy identifies ‘Achilles heel’ of drug-resistant pathogens
A study has found a highly vulnerable weakness in drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, using a genetic platform to identify biological pathways in a drug-resistant strain of the bacterium that are highly sensitive to inhibition.
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NewsScientists reveal significant burden of liver cancer attributable to hepatitis B and alcohol globally
A new study analyzes and compares the epidemiological trends of liver cancer attributed to hepatitis B (LCHB) and alcohol use (LCAL) over the past 32 years.
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NewsKey influenza-severity risk factor found hiding in plain sight on our antibodies
Viruses are the fastest-evolving biological entity on earth. This fact explains why we need flu shots every year: Seasonal influenza perennially outwits the immunity we’ve acquired from previous vaccinations or infections. Source: Yuki999 H1N1 virus Some new strains are rougher than others. The 1918 flu pandemic killed ...
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NewsWe may be overestimating the association between gut bacteria and disease, study finds
Many bacterial-linked illnesses, such as inflammatory bowel disease or colorectal cancer, are associated with an overgrowth of gut bacteria thought to be bad actors. But when researchers used a machine learning algorithm to predict the density of microbes—called microbial load, from their gut microbiomes, they found that changes in microbial ...
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NewsMicrobial load can influence disease associations, new model reveals
Scientists have developed a new machine-learning model to predict microbial load — the density of microbes in our guts — and used it to demonstrate how microbial load plays an important role in disease-microbiome associations.
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NewsPotential single-dose smallpox and mpox vaccine moves forward
Scientists report on studies suggesting that the horsepox virus in the experimental vaccine is substantially more attenuated—and less likely to trigger a systemic infection—than the vaccinia virus used in the single-dose vaccine already approved by the FDA.
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NewsMultidrug-resistant bacterium posing a global public health threat is detected in Northeast Brazil
A strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae that is resistant to all available antibitoics has been detected in Brazil after previously being detected in the United States.