Microbiology News: Serious, Multi-State E Coli Outbreak Caused by Carrots & Baby Carrots & more...

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Serious, Multi-State E Coli Outbreak Caused by Carrots & Baby Carrots

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other officials in several US states are currently investigating a multistate outbreak of infections caused by a pathogenic strain of E. coli known as O121:H19. This bacterium generates Shiga toxin ...

First Case of Maternal-Child Oropuche Virus Transmission Confirmed

Oropouche virus (OROV) was first identified in a human patient in 1955 in a fevered charcoal worker on Trinidad, a Caribbean island. Since that discovery, about 500,000 cases have been confirmed, primarily in Brazil and other parts of South America. But the virus caused the first confirmed deaths earlier this year ...

Lack of Dietary Zinc Can Promote Acinetobacter Lung Infections

New research has shown that a lack of dietary zinc can boost the chances of a lung infection caused by Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria; these pathogens are a major reason why people on ventilators get sick with pneumonia. This study has found a connection between molecules that promote inflammation and A ...

A Genetic Deficiency That Raises Susceptibility to Many Types of Flu

There are many processes and proteins that help the body fight a flu infection. One of them is known as IFITM3. Researchers have now shown that this protein can help prevent viruses from mutating after they have infected a new host. But some people are deficient ...

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