Nanozyme: a New Strategy Combating Bacterial

Essential Oils, A New Horizon in Combating Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance

For many years, the battle between humans and the multitudes of infection and disease causing pathogens continues. Emerging at the battlefield as some of the most significant challenges to human health are bacterial resistance and its rapid rise. These have become a major concern in global public health invigorating the need for new antimicrobial compounds. A rational approach to deal with anti...

Health protection and a new strategy for combating infection in children.

1 The prevention, diagnosis, and management of infection forms a large part of this but the new Health Protection Agency (HPA), which will become active in April 2003, will also deal with emergency planning and environmental threats to human health as there are many overlaps in the approaches to dealing with infections, and chemical and radiological threats. 1 This initiative has important impl...

Combating the New Plagiarism: A Progress Report

The many positive features of the Internet ,with regard to student learning, have a downside that it enables the “new plagiarist “ to almost effortlessly copy enormous quantities of unacknowledged text. Recent developments in the UK which attempt to address this problem are reported with reference to a postgraduate research skills module that is offered at the University of Sunderland. Details ...

Bacterial persistence: a winning strategy?

It has long been known that antibiotic treatment will not completely kill off a bacteria population. For many species a small fraction of bacteria is not sensitive to antibiotics. These bacteria are said to persist. Recently it has been shown that persistence is not a permanent state and that in fact a bacterium can switch back and forth between persistent and non persistent states. We introduc...

Is Medical Application Software a New Strategy for Oncologists?