Karl Klose
Tuesday 23 March 2021 : Watch out for this kind of “Crypto” Currency: Cryptosporidium is a parasite that causes diarrheal disease in humans. Cryptosporidiosis...
Wednesday 17 June 2020 : Campylobacter jejuni is a major cause of diarrheal disease in humans. However, C. jejuni is also naturally found in chickens and doesn’t...
Thursday 16 April 2020 : Our eyes are one of the most sensitive areas on our bodies, and they are constantly bathed in microbes, and yet we rarely get eye...
Saturday 04 April 2020 : Cheese is delicious, and also the product of a complex mixture of microbes. Different communities of microbes produce the wide variety of...
Monday 06 January 2020 : Lyme Disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States. The bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi is transmitted to humans...
Monday 16 December 2019 : Some bacteria have the amazing ability to orient themselves using the earth’s magnetic field, due to the presence of an intracellular...
Monday 02 December 2019 : Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most prevalent infectious diseases in the world, with approximately 10 million people becoming sick and...
Tuesday 19 November 2019 : What happens when a bacterium gets old? Continuous culture of bacteria without any added nutrients can reveal the dynamics of “old”...
Monday 21 October 2019 : Genomics-based technologies have revolutionized science. From microarrays to next-generation sequencing, genomics technologies are having a...
Monday 30 September 2019 : One reason is because the overwhelming bacterial members of the microbiome keep the fungi in check. Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum is a professor at...
Tuesday 10 September 2019 : The presence of bacterial toxins in a remote coral reef got Stanley Maloy thinking about the evolution of pathogens, and where “emerging...
Monday 19 August 2019 : Bacteriophages (“phages”), or bacterial viruses, are the most abundant biological entity on the planet, and the microbial world is...
Monday 22 July 2019 : Summer brings warm beach weather, and with it come gruesome news reports of “flesh eating disease” that people catch from the ocean....
Thursday 11 July 2019 : One of the more gruesome parasitic infections is that of the guinea worm: these 3 feet long worms typically emerge from painful boils in the...
Friday 17 May 2019 : The earth is warming up, and many aspects of life on earth are changing with the changing climate. Increased global temperature has...
Wednesday 24 April 2019 : Candida albicans is the most common fungal infection of humans. C. albicans can cause superficial infections like thrush or vaginitis when...
Thursday 07 March 2019 : Vibrio cholerae causes a severe gastrointestinal illness that leads to massive fluid loss that can be fatal. These bacteria are normally...
Wednesday 20 February 2019 : Proteus mirabilis is a common cause of Urinary Tract Infections. These bacteria are found within the gastrointestinal tract, but they are...
Friday 08 February 2019 : Dr. Jeff Miller has been studying Bordetella pertussis, the bacterium that causes whooping cough in humans, for over three decades, and he...
Wednesday 16 January 2019 : The devastation of the immune system that occurs during AIDS renders patients highly susceptible to a number of infections that a...
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