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Fecal microbiota transplants: Emerging social representations in the English-language print media [PDF]

, 2019
open access articleThis study investigates how English-language news sources have represented fecal microbiota transplants (FMT). FMT involves transferring stool from a healthy donor to a recipient with a dysfunctional intestinal flora in order to ...
Jaspal, Rusi, McLeod, Carmen, Nerlich, Brigitte   +2 more
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Membrane Fusion‐Inspired Nanomaterials: Emerging Strategies for Infectious Disease and Cancer Diagnostics

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Membrane fusion‐inspired nanomaterials offer transformative potential in diagnostics by mimicking natural fusion processes to achieve highly sensitive and specific detection of disease biomarkers. This review highlights recent advancements in nanomaterial functionalization strategies, signal amplification systems, and stimuli‐responsive fusion designs,
Sojeong Lee, Khulan Nyamzaya, Jueun Han, Yejin Song, Jihee Lee, Jung Hyun Jo, Seungmin Bang, Eun‐Kyung Lim, Seungjoo Haam, Eunjung Kim   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of Clinically Relevant Strains of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Occurring in Environmental Sources in a Rural Area of China by Using Whole-Genome Sequencing

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a gram-negative, opportunistic pathogen, and a common cause of healthcare-associated infections such as pneumonia, septicemia, and urinary tract infection.
Xiaohui Chi, Björn Berglund, Björn Berglund, Huiyun Zou, Beiwen Zheng, Stefan Börjesson, Stefan Börjesson, Xiang Ji, Jakob Ottoson, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, Xuewen Li, Lennart E. Nilsson   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unsafe disposal of feces of children <3 years among households with latrine access in rural Bangladesh: Association with household characteristics, fly presence and child diarrhea

PLoS ONE, 2018
Background Young children frequently defecate in the living environment in low-income countries. Unsafe child feces disposal has been associated with risk of diarrhea.
Mahfuza Islam, A. Ercumen, Sania Ashraf, Mahbubur Rahman, A. Shoab, S. Luby, L. Unicomb   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Multiorgan Trafficking Circuit Provides Purifying Selection of Listeria monocytogenes Virulence Genes. [PDF]

, 2019
Listeria monocytogenes can cause a life-threatening illness when the foodborne pathogen spreads beyond the intestinal tract to distant organs. Many aspects of the intestinal phase of L. monocytogenes pathogenesis remain unknown.
Becattini, Simone, Louie, Alexander, Portnoy, Daniel A, Waldor, Matthew K, Zhang, Ting   +4 more
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The Quantitative Profiling of Oxylipins from Arachidonic Acid by LC-MS/MS in Feces at Birth 3 Days and 21 Days of Piglets [PDF]

, 2022
Ningning Huang, Xiangchen Liu, Xiaoqi Pei, Jian Peng, Hongkui Wei   +4 more
openalex   +1 more source

Redefining Therapies for Drug‐Resistant Tuberculosis: Synergistic Effects of Antimicrobial Peptides, Nanotechnology, and Computational Design

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Antimicrobial peptide (AMP)‐loaded nanocarriers provide a multifunctional strategy to combat drug‐resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. By enhancing intracellular delivery, bypassing efflux pumps, and disrupting bacterial membranes, this platform restores phagolysosome fusion and macrophage function.
Christian S. Carnero Canales, Jessica Ingrid Marquez Cazorla, Renzo Marianito Marquez Cazorla, Aline Martins dos Santos, Jonatas Lobato Duarte, Letícia Oliveira Catarin Nunes, Túlio Custódio Reis, Lara Cerazi Salvador, Norival Alves Santos‐Filho, Rafael Miguel Sábio, Hélder A. Santos, Fernando Rogério Pavan   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Antagonistic Effect of Intestinal Bacteria from the Microflora of Holoxenic (Conventional) Piglets, Against Clostridium Perfringens in the Digestive Tract of Gnotoxenic Mice and Gnotoxenic Piglets [PDF]

, 1978
Antagonistic effect of piglet microflora against Clostridium perfringens was studied in germfree mice, to isolate bacterial strains responsible for this colonization resistance.
Corpet, Denis E., Nicolas, Jean-Louis
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Why latrines are not used : communities' perceptions and practices regarding latrines in a Taenia solium endemic rural area in Eastern Zambia [PDF]

, 2015
Taenia solium cysticercosis is a neglected parasitic zoonosis occurring in many developing countries. Socio-cultural determinants related to its control remain unclear.
Dorny, Pierre, Gabriël, Sarah, Lefevre, Pierre, Marcotty, Tanguy, Mwape, Kabemba E, Phiri, Andrew M, Phiri, Isaak K, Thys, Séverine   +7 more
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Characterization of Microplastics in Human Gastric Cancer and Control Tissues and Analysis of Associated Genetic Features

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study characterizes the presence of microplastics in human normal gastric, para‐tumor, and gastric tumor tissue and confirms the association between microplastic exposure and lymph node metastasis in gastric cancer. This study explores the transcriptomic changes induced by microplastic exposure, laying the foundation for further investigation into
Liqiao Chen, Jialin Li, Yan Wu, Han Bao, Xuesong Yang, Guoqing Lv, Ke Ji, Ji Zhang, Xiaojiang Wu, Kai Zhou, Jieli Xu, Jiatian Tang, Xiyuan Han, Anqiang Wang   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source