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By the 1950s, we instead knew that tuberculosis was caused by a highly contagious bacterial infection, which is slightly less romantic, but that had the upside of us being able to maybe develop drugs to treat it.
The woman had a knee injury, required multiple surgeries, and over the course of these, developed a chronic bacterial infection in her leg.
And your hand, just like so much of our body, is a hotbed of bacterial activity, making it an ideal hunting ground for phages.
Typically, a phage will only infect a single bacterial species.
The feet are actually extremely sensitive receptors, on the lookout for the right surface on a bacterial cell.
Once it finds it, the phage will latch on to the bacterial cell wall and then inject its DNA.
Now, how come we have something that works so well in nature, every day, everywhere around us, and yet, in most parts of the world, we do not have a single drug on the market that uses this principle to combat bacterial infections?
He was interested in a disease called bacillary dysentery, which is a bacterial infection that causes severe diarrhea, and back then, was actually killing a lot of people, because after all, no cure for bacterial infections had been invented.
Compare that to phages, which work extremely narrowly against one bacterial species, and you can see the obvious advantage.
You had a patient with a suspected bacterial infection, you gave him the antibiotic, and without really needing to know anything else about the bacteria causing the disease, many of the patients recovered.
And so as we developed more and more antibiotics, they, rightly so, became the first-line therapy for bacterial infections.
We are only able to do complex medical interventions and medical surgeries today because we have antibiotics, and we don't risk the patient dying the very next day from the bacterial infection that he might contract during the operation.
And to a certain extent, even when I was growing up, the notion was: we have solved bacterial infections; we have antibiotics.
Today, we are able to reliably identify a bacterial pathogen that's causing an infection in many settings.
More than 10 biotech companies, including our own company, are developing human-phage applications to treat bacterial infections.
The thread provided was a highway to bacterial infection through the baby's umbilical cord, and the blade used was the kind that men used for shaving, and they did not want it anywhere close to them.
It particularly targets helper T cells, which help defend the body against bacterial and fungal infections.
People usually contract bacterial meningitis by breathing in tiny particles of mucus and saliva that spray into the air when an infected person sneezes or coughs.
And if bacterial toxins accumulate in the brain and trigger cell death, meningitis could also cause long-term brain damage and memory loss.
You're feeling some of the 100 billion bacterial cells that live on our skin.
Surprisingly, CRISPR is actually a natural process that’s long functioned as a bacterial immune system.
If CRISPR couldn't distinguish between bacterial and viral DNA, it wouldn't be a very useful defense system.
The whole animal world today lives on a stockpile of bacterial oxygen that is cycled constantly through plants and algae, and their waste is our breath, and vice versa.
But I do understand why the concept of bacterial help might make some people a little nervous.
Decades later, it turned out that the source of their blindness was most likely some sort of bacterial infection.
Here, immune cells called macrophages rush to the infection site, attempting to absorb and break down the bacterial invaders.
In 1882, the German physician Robert Koch identified the disease’s bacterial origins.
But now moving from bacterial engineering to tissue engineering, let me show you what's happened in that period of time.
And survival is the key driver of evolution, and that's what we're talking about here: bacterial evolution.
This is because the sharkskin-like texture creates an inhospitable surface for bacterial attachment and growth.
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