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Increased Incidence of Antimicrobial-Resistant Nontyphoidal Salmonella Infections, United States, 2004-2016
Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 Jun;27(6):1662-1672. doi: 10.3201/eid2706.204486.ABSTRACTSalmonella is a major cause of foodborne illness in the United States, and antimicrobial-resistant strains pose a serious threat to public health. We used Bayesian hierarchical models of culture-confirmed infections during 2004-2016 from 2 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveillance systems to estimate changes in the national incidence of resistant nontyphoidal Salmonella infections. Extrapolating to the United States population and accounting for unreported infections, we estimated a 40% increase in the annual incidence of infectio...
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - May 20, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Felicita Medalla Weidong Gu Cindy R Friedman Michael Judd Jason Folster Patricia M Griffin Robert M Hoekstra Source Type: research

UCLA-led research reveals potential treatments for deadly tropical disease
Melioidosis is a tropical disease that claims an estimated 90,000 lives worldwide each year. There is no vaccine, and current treatments are hampered by the ability of the bacterium that causes the disease to resist even the strongest antibiotics.Hardy and lethal, that bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei, is classified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a potential bioweapon.UCLA-led research has identified two compounds that, based on tests on human cells and on mice, show potential for treating melioidosis. One is a widely used drug already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as an antifu...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - September 11, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

A Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test for Determining Yersinia pestis Susceptibility to Doxycycline by RT-PCR Quantification of RNA Markers
This study was supported by the Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel. Conflict of Interest Statement The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Acknowledgments We thank Dr. Vered Caspi (Ben-Gurion University) for assisting with the bioinformatics and statistical analyses of the Agilent DNA microarray results. Supplementary Material The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00754/full#s...
Source: Frontiers in Microbiology - April 15, 2019 Category: Microbiology Source Type: research

Identification of a nth-Like Gene Encoding an Endonuclease III in Campylobacter jejuni
In this study, a BER homolog encoded by cj0595c (named nth) in C. jejuni was analyzed for endonuclease III activity and for its role in maintaining genomic stability. It was found that inactivation of nth resulted in elevated frequencies of spontaneous fluoroquinolone-resistant (FQR) and oxidative stress resistant (OXR) mutants, compared with the wild-type strain in C. jejuni. Sequencing analysis of the FQR and OXR mutants revealed that the elevated mutation rates were associated with C → T or G → A transition in gyrA (FQR mutants) or perR (for OXR mutants). In an in vitro assay, a purified recombinant C. jej...
Source: Frontiers in Microbiology - April 9, 2019 Category: Microbiology Source Type: research

Pipe Dreams: Tapping into the Health Information in Our Sewers
The emerging field of sewage chemical-information mining is taking advantage of a readily available yet underappreciated resource: the untreated waste flowing under our feet and the biosolids remaining after treatment. It turns out that sewage and sewage sludge hold a wealth of data on chemical consumption and exposure, and potentially even the health status of whole communities.EHP Freezers at the National Sewage Sludge Repository hold hundreds of samples of raw sewage and sludge collected from more than 200 sites around the United States.© Arjunkrishna Venkatesan   Most chemicals...
Source: EHP Research - May 2, 2016 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Featured Focus News May 2016 Source Type: research