Scientists identify first virus to infect Legionella, revealing evolutionary origins of Legionnaire’s disease
From left: Elizabeth Chaney, Alexander Ensminger, Beth Nicholson and José Santé| EPIC Emerging & Pandemic Infections Consortium
From left: Elizabeth Chaney, Alexander Ensminger, Beth Nicholson and José Santé| EPIC Emerging & Pandemic Infections Consortium
Two N.C. Central University professors are leading a group of biology and biomedical sciences students who are helping build a database that could hold the key to fighting infections that no longer respond to traditional antibiotics. Several undergraduate students are working with professors Gail P. Hollowell and Lindsey Costantini in the Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences to discover, analyze and share bacteriophages, also called phages, which are viruses that can attack harmfu...| Campus Echo Online
A team of microbiologists discovered a collection of thriving, diverse, and mostly new-to-science viruses on toothbrushes and showerheads. Before you freak out and toss your toothbrush, though, you should know that these aren’t the kind of viruses that make humans sick. The researchers at Northwestern University Read More ... The post What’s growing on your toothbrush? first appeared on Jax Examiner.| Jax Examiner
