3 hrs ago | Berkshire Eagle
Green River swimming hole in Great Barrington closed due to E. coli
The Green River swimming hole on Route 23 was closed on Friday after water samples confirmed elevated levels of E. coli, according to the town's Health Department.
7 hrs ago | WHO-TV Des Moines
Swim Safety: Monitoring Beach Water Quality
Summer unofficially starts this weekend. And, there's something you'll want to know before you hit the beach the season.
11 hrs ago | Gilmer Mirror
Those Uninvited Guests at Your Barbecue
Planning a Memorial Day barbecue? When you buy meat for that festive meal, watch out for some uninvited guests.
15 hrs ago | KIII
5 germ hot spots you aren't cleaning
Home is where the heart is -- not to mention the dirt, dust, bacteria and mold. "Most people clean what they can see, but there's a lot more to cleaning a home than just wiping down your bureau," says Richard Symes of Clenz Philly , an eco-friendly home and commercial cleaning service in New Jersey and Philadelphia.
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Applicability of DiversiLab Repetitive Sequence-Based PCR Method in...
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22 hrs ago | MediLexicon
Computational Study Tracks E. coli Cells' Regulatory Mechanisms
Environment is not the only factor in shaping regulatory patterns - and it might not even be the primary factor, according to a new Rice University study that looks at how cells' protein networks relate to a bacteria's genome.
Macomb County Beaches Open for Memorial Day Weekend
The Macomb County Health Department has resumed testing the water at five public beaches twice a week for E. coli bacteria.
Multidrug resistance protein MdtM adds to the repertoire of...
In neutralophilic bacteria, monovalent metal cation/H+ antiporters play a key role in pH homeostasis.
Arizona mom accused of contaminating infant daughter's IV tubes
A prosecutor says a 23-year-old woman on trial in Tucson contaminated her hospitalized infant daughter's intravenous lines in an attempt to get attention from the girl's father.
Deroy Murdock Op-Ed: The Illegal Alien Jailbreak
Sign up to Booker Rising's RSS feed to receive updates in your feed reader or sign up with your email address below to receive the updates via email! The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has released 2,226 illegal-alien detainees, 622 of them with criminal records.
Protection Against E. coli O157:H7 Provided By Intestinal Bacteria
A cocktail of non-pathogenic bacteria naturally occurring in the digestive tract of healthy humans can protect against a potentially lethal E. coli infection in animal models according to research presented at the 113th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.
Brazos Co. Health Dept. Issues Apology About E. Coli News Conf.
The parents of an 18-month-old and a 4-year-old who were sickened by E. Coli from a local restaurant weren't happy with a Brazos County Health Department news conference on Tuesday.
Centers for Disease Control and Preve...
New Delhi Metallo- -Lactamase - "producing Enterobacteriaceae, United States
Isolates were resistant to I2-lactams, fluoroquinolones, and aminoglycosides, demonstrated MICs a15 countries worldwide .
Consumer Reports: Mechanically tenderized beef risk
Before you fire up the grill for some great summer meals, Consumer Reports has a caution.
Chattahoochee River: Unhealthy Bacteria Levels Increase After Heavy Rains
The storms that rolled through Roswell and the metro area early Sunday morning brought heavy rains - and the danger of flooding along the Chattachoochee River.
Oral vaccine against diarrhea promising
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli bacteria are the primary cause of diarrhea in children living in low and middle income countries result in 400 million diarrheal episodes and approximately 300,000 deaths among children per year.
The average British barbecue contains TWICE as many germs as a toilet seat
Hygiene expert Dr Lisa Ackerley found the typical outdoor grill contains a staggering 1.7 million microbes per 100cm sq.
CDC says high number of public pools contain microbes
Three-quarters of public schools in the metro Atlanta area contain microbes, including bacteria indicating the presence of fecal matter, according to research published in the May 17 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report .
Minus environment, patterns still emerge: Computational study tracks...
The Rice lab of computer scientist Luay Nakhleh reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that when environmental factors are eliminated from an evolutionary model, mutations and genetic drift can give rise to the patterns that appear.
EPA finds exceptional biology in watershed
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday afternoon biology was found to be exceptional to very good at several sites on select Ohio River tributaries including Island Creek, Croxton Run and Wills Creek and 10 other sites in Jefferson and Harrison counties.