8th International Conference on Bacteriology and Infectious Diseases

Researchers discovered chemical compound that stops Ebola virus replication: Viruses are small ailment-inflicting agents (pathogens) that replicate inside the cells of living organisms. A   group of viruses known as non-segmented, negative sense (NNS) ribonucleic acid (RNA) viruses purpose commonplace ailments which includes rabies, mumps and measles. Those pathogens causes more critical lethal illnesses, inclusive of Ebola, Hendra and Nipah. Currently, there are not any authorized and powerful remedies in opposition to those viruses, which, in step with statistics from the the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, are associated with mortality rates up to 90 percent following infection. The largest outbreak on record for the filovirus family was caused by Ebola virus in West Africa between 2013 and 2016, resulting in more than 28,000 infections and more than 11,000 deaths. In this study, the researchers screened a library of 2 hundred,000 small molecule compo...

Good bacteria that eats bad Greenhouse gas: Methanotrophic bacteria , commonly called “methanotrophs,” take copper from the environment to fix into their molecular machinery that metabolizes methane, turning it into methanol for food. To obtain copper, many methanotrophs secrete a chemically modified peptide called methanobactin, which tightly binds to copper ions to pull them into the cell. Until now, the cellular machinery that drives the formation of methanobactin has been little understood. These bacteria that oxidise methane (methanotrophs) are found in soil and are globally important in capturing methane before it enters the atmosphere, and can also consume hydrogen gas to enhance their growth and survival. Methanotrophs can survive in environments when methane or oxygen are no longer available. With the ability to leech heavy metals from the environment and digest a potent greenhouse gas, methanotrophic bacteria pull double duty when it comes to cleaning up the ...

 Gut micro-organism in bees unfold antibiotic-resistant genes to each other   In the study, scientists investigated gut bacteria in honey bees to explore the query, "What happens to  intestine microorganism when they're exposed to antibiotics over a long time period?" even as honey bees have a less difficult microbial network of their guts in comparison to humans, they also have functions in common place. There may be an vital similarity between honey bee and human gut micro-organism, in that a few microorganism are in symbiosis with the host—those are essential for host fitness". The micro-organism that was investigated is symbiotic for the honey bee, and acts as motive to spread antibiotic-resistant genes in host.  In their observation, researchers focused on microbes that are resistant to tetracycline, further to use in human therapy, tetracycline is an antibiotic that has been widely used for many years to promote growth in animals—regularly in chic...

Can viruses produce insulin-like hormones that can stimulate human cells -- and have potential to cause disease?? All cell present in human body responds to the hormone insulin secreted by the pancreas, and if that process starts to fail, diabetes occurs due to the increase in the sugar concentration in the body. In a recent, unexpected, finding, scientists    have identified four viruses found in fish that can produce insulin-like hormones that are active on human cells. The discovery of these   insulin like peptide   producing virus species   propose that micro-organisms have an influence on the advance of diabetes, as well as other major diseases, such as autoimmune diseases and some cancers.   Experimenting for the first time on mouse and human cells, researchers studied that the VILPs act as hormones and indeed bind to human insulin receptors and receptors for a closely related hormone called IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor 1). Thi...

  Can multi drug-resistant microbes trap in molecular glue? Multiple drug resistance (MDR), is the microorganisms that are resistant to an antimicrobial drug. These microbes are most threatening to public health. MDR microbes can resist multiple antibiotics; other types include MDR bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites (resistant to multiple antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, and anti-parasitic drugs of a wide chemical variety). Around the world bacteria are evolving new approaches that help to render them resistant to antibiotics, resulting in a growing number of patients dying from untreatable infections. Scientists are now focusing to discover new medicines soon, otherwise the post-antibiotic era may be upon us, effectively pushing human healthcare back to the 1940s.The most causative class of bacteria are 'Gram-negative bacteria', which include the most common & well-known species E. coli, are causing major problems in our hospitals. The problem is...