Scientists ID Enzyme That Allows Dysentery Amoeba to Hide

Finding could lead to more effective treatments for diarrhea worldwide, study says THURSDAY, June 19 (HealthDay News) U.S. researchers say they've identified an enzyme that may help dysentery-causing amoeba evade the immune system. The finding may help lead to new ways to fight d...

New molecular insight into amboebic dysentery

In the June 15th issue of G&D, Dr. Sinisa Urban (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) and colleagues reveal a potential role for the rhomboid enzyme, EhROM1, in the pathogenesis of the enteric protozoan parasite, E. histolytica. This discovery posits EhROM1 as a prospective target in the t...

Latrines trounce toilets

...ames Mihelcic and PhD student Lauren Fry of the University's Sustainable Futures Institute analyzed worldwide barriers to sanitation. Diseases such as dysentery attack millions of people every year, often fatally, largely as a result of poor sanitation. In particular, the researchers found that a scarcity of c...

Beyond Traditional Borders sends more Rice U. undergrads to Africa

... kindergarten through fifth grade. Using in-class lessons and homework, Barry and Yeh are teaching basic hygiene and health, such as how diseases like dysentery are transmitted, as well as how common practices like hand-washing can prevent infection. In a May 30 blog entry, Barry described a classsroom expe...

Estimated 3.2 million Burmese potentially affected by cyclone

...th threats for cyclone survivors include waterborne diseases such as typhoid, which has already been reported in some areas and potential outbreaks of dysentery from cholera and E. coli. Measles outbreaks, which are common in settings of mass displacement, are a concern for children and a possible threat. Mosq...

Cleaning Up the World's Sanitation

...s and parasites, which cause diarrheal disease, parasitic infections, worm infestations, and the eye disease trachoma. Diarrheal disease (including dysentery and cholera) is a leading cause of death (1.8 million a year) and illness. About 5,000 children die of diarrheal disease each day and hundreds of mill...

A Village in Madhya Pradesh Achieves Total Sanitation

...hem understand that electricity is not needed for lifting water - all through the 'learn by play' technique. 'What is more important, no case of dysentery has been reported from the village in the past few months. The health indices have become more hygienic,' says the sarpanch. 'Efforts of the Gun...

Ancient Herbal Text Paves the Way to Novel Anti-bacterial Drug

...us: "... these same kernels... will halt all kinds of diarrhea, but very suddenly, forcefully and powerfully, so that one should use them with care in dysentery cases, because that illness or affliction should not be halted too quickly; and some considered this medicament a great secret, and relied on it compl...

Lifespan And Height Interlinked With Juvenile Diseases.

...tality rate when compared to individuals who did not suffer from childhood infections. Childhood infections like respiratory diseases, diarrhea, dysentery and other common infectious diseases reduce the height of the individual. On the other hand when there is a reduction in the infection rate the su...

Water Borne Diseases causing More Havoc in Mumbai

...show how an efficient administration can make all the difference. Further informatation on Water Borne Diseases on Medindia Dysentery: dysentery is a common water borne disease and is due to ingestion of contaminated water. It is caused by the four different species of the bacteria Shigella. Th...

Dysentery in Medical Dictionary

Dysentery

Dysentery is a disorder of the digestive system that results in severe diarrhea containing mucus and/or blood in the feces. If left untreated, dysentery can be fatal. Consumer health article explaining the causes of the condition and its prevention. dysentery n. An inflammatory ...

Shigellosis

... Shigellosis , also known as bacillary dysentery in its most severe manifestation, is a foodborne illness caused by infection by bacteria of the genus Shigella. Shigellosis rarely occurs in an...

Shigella

...s, diagnosis, and treatment information for Shigella ... Shigella : Another name for Shigellosis (or close medical condition association) ... dysentery is not a disease but a symptom of a potentially deadly illness. ... Infections of shigella bacteria, called shigellosis, can lead to bacillary d...

Dysentery in Biological News

Montana State University research reaches Supreme Court of India

...inated ground beef, drinking unpasteurized milk, swimming in or drinking contaminated water and eating contaminated vegetables. The bacteria can cause dysentery and kidney failure. It occasionally kills. Hamner learned this spring that a research institute in Lucknow, India reported its lab results to the I...

Sanitation investment in poor countries would yield $9-to-1 benefits in productivity, health: UN

...nd parasites spread through direct or indirect contact with these watercourses. Such exposure is the leading cause for diarrhoeal disease (including dysentery and cholera), parasitic infections, worm infestations and trachoma. Sanitation and Children Healthy children learn more than children sufferi...

Hope for major advance in fighting world killer disease

.... Two particular bacteria , enteropathogenic E.coli (EPEC), which causes a persistent infection lasting more than 14 days, and Shigella, the cause of dysentery - are the most deadly in terms of killing children. They cause only 20% of cases of diarrhoea but result in 60% of deaths. It is these two killers ...

Professors to develop hand-held pathogen testing device

...ilica surface, similar to a computer chip, and is about the size of a thumbnail. Today, testing air, water or food for pathogens like cholera and dysentery must be done one pathogen at a time. Testing for each pathogen on an individual basis is dangerous, more expensive and time consuming. Simultaneous te...

Mayo Clinic collaboration mining of ancient herbal text leads to potential new anti-bacterial drug

...s: "... these same kernels ... will halt all kinds of diarrhea, but very suddenly, forcefully and powerfully, so that one should use them with care in dysentery cases, because that illness or affliction should not be halted too quickly; and some considered this medicament a great secret, and relied on it compl...

Silence of the amoebae

...m of expression is great, but silence is golden ?at least when it comes to amoebae, which are intestine-dwelling parasites that cause life-threatening dysentery in many parts of the world. Three years ago, scientists at the Weizmann Institute accidentally discovered a way to silence the expression of a key amo...

To Stop Evolution: New Way Of Fighting Antibiotic Resistance Demonstrated By Scripps Scientists

... completely untreatable. This is a major concern for public health because, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), large-scale epidemics of dysentery driven by this pathogen have been known to cause tens of thousands of deaths in Central America, South Asia, and central and southern Africa. Treat...

Dysentery uses 'sword and shield' to cause infection

...ientists have found that the bacterium that causes dysentery uses a 'sword and shield' approach to cause infect...ce of the bacteria acts as a shield to protect the dysentery bacterium from being destroyed by the body's immun... use this 'sword and shield' approach, showing how dysentery is able to infect the body so effectively. We have...

Dysentery in Biological Definition

Escherichia coli

...so treatment with antibiotics is usually effective. Certain strains of E.coli are toxigenic (some produce a toxin very similar to that seen in dysentery ) and can cause food-poisoning usually associated with eating contaminated meat (contaminated during or shortly after slaughter or during storage or d...