Researchers isolate a bacterium in chicken transmitting multidrug resistant pathogen to humans

Researchers from Hyderabad have isolated Helicobacter pullorum bacterium in chicken that may be source of transmission of the multidrug resistance pathogen to humans. This is the first evidence on prevalence and isolation of H. pullorum multidrug resistance bacterium from broilers ..

Month: Current Affairs - November, 2016

193 countries sign declaration to stamp out drug-resistant infections

The 193 countries of the United Nations (UN) have signed a landmark declaration to rid the world of drug-resistant infections or Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) or superbugs. It is the fourth time a UN declaration has been reached on a health ..

Month: Current Affairs - September, 2016

Jaipur declaration on Antimicrobial Resistance

The Jaipur declaration adopted at the 29th meeting of health ministers of 11 South East Asian countries on Antimicrobial Resistance, committing to maintaining the efficaciousness of antibiotics via intellectual use and regulation Union Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad inaugurated the meeting and 64th ..

Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011

Suicide Bomber Bacteria engineered

Recently, researchers in the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore engineered a strain of E. Coli that can detect signs of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a leading cause of infection that can be fatal to patients with weak immune systems. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is ..

Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011

Current Affairs : September 7, 2011

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Researchers: DNA Building Blocks can be built in Space National Aeronautics and Space Administration funded researchers have discovered proof that a few building blocks of DNA, found in meteorites were probably shaped in space This ..

Month: Current Affairs - September, 2011

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