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Category: Drug resistance

Posted on November 24, 2018November 28, 2018

NCCS finds mass bathing during Kumbh Mela alters bacterial load, diversity

During Kumbh Mela in 2015, microbial diversity dropped by nearly 37.5% while bacterial load increased by about 130-fold at five bathing sites in Nashik from where samples were collected prior…

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Posted on September 29, 2018

Podcast: How Klebsiella bacteria develop colistin resistance

  Abdul Ghafur explains how the team deciphered the mechanism by which Klebsiella bacteria develop resistance to colistin, a last-line antibiotic. Mutations and insertional inactivation of the mgrB gene, which is present…

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Posted on September 29, 2018September 30, 2018

Mechanism of colistin resistance in food Klebsiella bacteria unravelled

Researchers found colistin-resistant bacteria in 49% vegetable, meat samples in Chennai. They have for the first time deciphered the mechanism by which food Klebsiella bacteria develop resistance to colisitin, a last-line antibiotic.…

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Posted on August 25, 2018

Podcast – Finding new drug target for Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria

 IIT Roorkee researchers have identified the RNA protein Hfq as a potential drug target. Once the Hfq gene is removed, the Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria become less virulent, more susceptible to environmental…

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Posted on August 25, 2018August 25, 2018

IIT Roorkee finds new drug target for antibiotic resistant bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii

IIT Roorkee researchers have identified the RNA protein Hfq as a potential drug target. Once the Hfq gene is removed, the Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria become less virulent, more susceptible to…

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Posted on August 5, 2018August 5, 2018

IISER Bhopal team strikes at the root of head and neck cancer growth

Researchers at IISER Bhopal have found that depleting the production of a specific protein kinase (PAK2) has a cascading effect in head and neck cancer. The expression of both cancer…

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Posted on June 30, 2018July 25, 2018

IISER Pune shows bacteria develop resistance even without exposure to antibiotics 

Researchers at IISER Pune found that E. coli subjected to different stresses simultaneously and in a unpredictable manner evolved to tolerate novel stresses that they were never exposed to such as antibiotics and…

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Posted on March 15, 2018March 16, 2018

Egyptian vultures wintering in India undergo a change in drug-resistance pattern

Researchers found a significant change in the pattern of drug resistance in E. coli seen in Egyptian vultures that come to India for wintering. They were resistant to certain antibiotics…

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