FBI Unveils Science Of Anthrax Investigation Aug 22, 2008
As reported in the newest issue of PLoS Pathogen (November. (Oct. (Science Daily)
Rapid test for pathogens developed by K-State researchers Aug 22, 2008
Sanjeev Narayanan, assistant professor, and Greg Peterson, research microbiologist, both in the department of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology, use a device called a DNA spotted microarray to seek out the specific genetic markers that set one pathogen apart from another and determine antibiotic resistance. Traditionally, it takes days and multiple lab workers to screen a sample of soil, water or feces for just one pathogen ... Narayanan and Peterson have analyzed DNA of hundreds of pathogens... (EurekAlert!)
Tracking A Crop Disease Could Save Millions Of Lives Aug 21, 2008
"Given the fragility of African agriculture and perpetual famine risks with millions of lives at stake, MSV is actually one of the most important plant pathogens worldwide," said Dr Darren Martin from the University of Cape Town in South Africa ... "Understanding the chain of events that trigger the emergence of novel pathogens is a major goal of epidemiologists worldwide," said Dr Martin ... "There is a lot of circumstantial evidence suggesting how evolutionary processes like recombination... (Science Daily)
Researchers Uncover Attack Mechanism Of Illness-inducing Bacterium Aug 21, 2008
This pathogen has spread to all the oceans of the world, and is resistant to many antibiotics, said Dr. Kim Orth, associate professor of molecular biology and senior author of a study appearing online this week and in an upcoming issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ... We ve received a wake-up call that this is important environmentally, and we want to understand at the molecular level how this pathogen infects, kills and persists, Dr. Orth said ... There are people... (Science Daily)
Infection Blocks Lung's Protective Response Against Tobacco Smoke Aug 21, 2008
Mp is a common lung pathogen and the most common cause of pneumonia, but can be difficult to detect because it is challenging to grow in culture. Recent tests to detect Mp DNA in the lungs have indicated that it may be more prevalent than generally recognized and can exist as a low-level chronic infection. (Science Daily)
Glacier Park: The next century - Threats from all sides Aug 20, 2008
Not long ago, down in California, a new pathogen popped up and wiped out the scrub oaks ... So what, exactly, enabled the pathogen responsible for sudden oak death ... The interaction between climate and pathogens is sort of a crapshoot, Waller said. (Missoulian, MT)
Biosolid application starts in county Aug 20, 2008
The lime kills pathogens. "Lime-stabilization is used to kill pathogens in the material," said Charles Hooks of the Virginia Council of Biosolids ... "They test it in the field for its pH level, which lets them know if the pathogens are all killed.". (Altivista Journal, VA)
Green Thoughts: Keep 'em moving Aug 20, 2008
Such powerful pathogens leave gardeners pondering their management options ... If you planted members of the nightshade family (tomatoes, eggplants, potatoes) in the same place each year, you'd also be building up the populations of their specific pathogens ... Shuffling the families keeps their pathogen levels lower. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Prosaro fungicide Aug 18, 2008
Caused by the fungal pathogen Fusarium graminearum, Myers says scab causes reduction in yields, market grade and crop quality ... According to Myers, the infection process is stopped when the pathogen comes in contact with the fungicide. (Midwest Bulls Eye, NE)
Synthetic Biology Is Bearing Fruit: Blockers Against Blockers Aug 17, 2008
16, 2008) Synthetic Biology is bearing fruit: the tuberculosis pathogen can be fooled by a widely used food additive ... However, high dosages are often needed to fight the pathogen ... It produces a protein, EthR, that blocks the production of the enzyme EthA, thus preventing EthA converting Ethionamid from an inactive precursor into a substance that kills the TB pathogen. (Science Daily)
Bill Gates' millions to battle TB Aug 16, 2008
"We are in the midst of a new TB epidemic. The world desperately needs an effect vaccine to prevent TB, particularly in adolescents and adults. Dr Jerald Sadoff: New approaches are promising "Through accelerated research and development, a new vaccine could permanently change the trajectory of the epidemic and save millions of lives every year," he added. Two billion people - one out of every three people on Earth - are infected with the TB pathogen, a bacterium called Mycobacterium... (Yahoo News -- Tuberculosis)
Testosterone Associated With Disease Transmission Aug 16, 2008
Mouse study finds hormone affects behavior, drives spread of contact illness. (SOURCE: Penn State University, news release, Aug. 8, 2008). (Health-Finder)
Novel Mechanism That Controls The Development Of Autoimmunity Discovered Aug 15, 2008
"Inhibiting furin has been thought to reduce growth of malignant cells or to block infections by preventing essential activation of a pathogen," says study author and NIAMS' Scientific Director John J. O'Shea, M.D., chief of the NIAMS' Molecular Immunology and Inflammation Branch. "However, these results suggest that the development of drug interventions could have an unexpected side effect of increasing the risk of developing autoimmune disease.". (Science Daily)
Ondine Biopharma Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results Aug 14, 2008
This system will initially be directed towards decolonization of potentially pathogenic bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ("MRSA") in the nose, as well as for the decolonization of micro organisms from other sites ... When exposed to the Periowave(TM) Photodisinfection System, these virulent pathogens are completely eliminated within 60 seconds ... In vitro studies have shown this compound to be highly efficacious in killing MRSA, a prominent... (Canada Newswire)
Graduate Student Discovers, Names Bacterium Linked To Psyllid Yellows Aug 14, 2008
Allison Hansen, a doctoral student in entomology, has discovered and named a new bacterial pathogen that could be responsible for "psyllid yellows," a disease that infects and kills tomato and potato plants ... She named the pathogen "Candidatus Liberibacter psyllaurous." Liberibacter, she explained, is the genus a category of biological classification in which the bacterium is nested; psyllaurous means psyllid yellows in Latin. (Science Daily)
Veterinarians Adapt Human Tests For Monkeys Aug 14, 2008
22, 2008) Red colobus monkeys in western Uganda have been exposed to an unknown orthopoxvirus, a pathogen related to the viruses that cause smallpox, monkeypox and cowpox. Most of the monkeys screened harbor. (Science Daily)
How Flesh-eating Bacteria Attack Immune System Aug 14, 2008
The research focuses on the major human pathogen group A Streptococcus. Among the most important of all bacterial pathogens, Strep is responsible for a wide range of diseases from simple strep throat to life-threatening conditions such as necrotizing fasciitis ("flesh-eating disease") and toxic shock syndrome ... The UC San Diego investigators examined the interaction of Strep bacteria with neutrophils, specialized white blood cells that play a front-line role in humans' immune defense against... (Science Daily)
Mad Cow rules hit sperm banks' patrons Aug 13, 2008
Since May 2005, the United States has effectively barred sperm banks from importing from Europe for fear it might spread the brain-ravaging pathogen that causes the affliction. advertisement. (MSNBC -- International)
Beef Recalled by Whole Foods Fell Into Regulatory Gray Area Aug 13, 2008
By contrast, with ground beef, the pathogen gets mixed in and can survive if the interior isn't heated to 160 degrees. Whole Foods grinds its own beef in an attempt to assure quality and safety, said spokeswoman Kate Lowery. (Yahoo News -- Consumer News)
Mass Extinction Of Amphibians 'Unprecedented' Aug 12, 2008
Scientists seek to map how the pathogen is transmitted from one species to another to develop ways to prevent or control outbreaks ... "This disease is a remarkable example of a pathogen jumping boundaries and causing havoc. If we can understand how it is able to do so, we may be able to help the frogs as well as ourselves.". (Science Daily)
Potato Blight Resistant Potatoes Coming Soon Aug 11, 2008
This offers the prospect of achieving sustainable resistance against the pathogen because it is less capable of breaking the resistance of the potato when multiple genes are involved. According to researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, the Sainsbury Laboratory at the John Innes Centre in the UK and Ohio State University in the USA, the best strategy to make potatoes resistant to the stubborn fungal pathogen Phytophthora is to develop so-called broad spectrum resistance ... The... (Science Daily)
Fungal Disease Culprits Identified With Molecular Genetics Aug 11, 2008
A fluorescent signal that's measured and displayed on a computer screen at each amplification cycle's end indicates how much of the pathogen is present in the original sample. The assays' chief advantages over conventional methods are speed, specificity and sensitivity. (Science Daily)
When dinner makes you sick Aug 10, 2008
In such cases, it is inexcusable in this digital age that regulators cannot promptly trace a pathogen back to its source and immediately inform the public what is safe to eat and what is not, sparing the industry the need to destroy perfectly edible produce. By blocking such capability earlier in this decade, industry officials set themselves up for the recent produce fiascoes. (Boston Globe)
Hospital C difficile deaths: the patients let down by those they ... Aug 9, 2008
In Scotland they are going UP UP UP. There were 285 deaths involving this dangerous pathogen between December 2007 and May 2008. It is a particularly horrific way to die, just as harrowing for the relatives to witness as it is for the patient. (Scotsman)
Circumcision protects from HIV Aug 8, 2008
But it provided protection of 36 percent against the human papillomavirus (HPV), a pathogen linked to cancer of the cervix and penis, he said. Circumcision has emerged as one of the few bright areas of progress in the Aids crisis, after the Orange Farm and Kisumu trials. (iAfrica.com)
Pathogen that causes disease in cattle also associated with Crohn's disease Aug 8, 2008
The report, Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis: Incidental Human Pathogen or Public Health Threat ... "This complicated network of causation has confounded efforts to understand CD, says Carol Nacy, Ph.D., CEO of Sequella, Inc., who chaired the colloquium and is the report's co-author. "MAP may be one of the causes of CD," Nacy adds, "since, among other things, multiple studies identified the pathogen in tissues of CD patients. (EurekAlert!)
Testosterone key to disease transmission Aug 8, 2008
"These findings suggest that even if some individuals in a population have high levels of testosterone, they can impact the behavior of those around, and drive the transmission of diseases transmitted by close contact such as the respiratory pathogen bordetella," explained Grear, whose work is funded by the National Science Foundation. . (EurekAlert!)
Ideal breeding conditions for West Nile-carrying mosquitoes provoke campaign to wipe them out Aug 7, 2008
NEWTON - With his white baseball cap flipped backward and his T-shirt flapping as he pumped his Gary Fisher cruiser bike up a hill on Commonwealth Avenue last week, Charles King looked more like a college student heading to a summer lifeguard job than the first line of defense against a potentially lethal pathogen. Pulling up to a storm-drain cover, the 24-year-old stopped by the curb, reached into a blue nylon bag attached to the bike's wide handlebars and dropped a packet the size of a Tootsie... (Boston Globe)
Ondine Announces Publication of Positive Results from Pseudomonas aeruginosa Eradication Study Aug 7, 2008
P. aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen renowned for its ability to live in practically any environment, including distilled water or even some hospital disinfectant solutions ... "Pseudomonads can cause dangerous infections in humans including respiratory infections, burn and wound infections, bacteremias, severe external ear infections, and bone and joint infections. Pseudomonads are one of the most difficult-to-kill microorganisms. Our photodisinfection technology has proven capable of... (Canada Newswire)
Summer brings out bugs in Oregon Aug 6, 2008
Oregon health officials last week reported the season's first brood of mosquitoes to test positive for West Nile virus, the mosquito-borne pathogen that began sweeping North America in 1999. In people, the illness that causes fever and flu-like symptoms and sometimes triggers life-threatening brain inflammation. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
Fluidigm's Biology Chip Keys Ebola Breakthrough Aug 6, 2008
"And (it) helps explain how the pathogen invades and exploits the human immune system.". Fluidigm co-founder and Chief Executive Gajus Worthington says his company's products are used in other areas, such as agriculture, where genetic researchers work to develop hardier tomatoes and other crops. (Investors Business Daily)
Novel method to create personalized immunotherapy treatments Aug 6, 2008
These properties, especially expanding memory cells, required for long term protection against pathogens, may represent an improvement worthy of future of clinical development ... This platform is based on optimizing a patient's own (autologous) dendritic cells to trigger a pathogen- or tumor-specific immune response. (EurekAlert!)
Three Types of Tuberculosis Infecti... Aug 5, 2008
When M. tuberculosis enters the lungs, phagocytic cells of the host s immune system, called macrophages, engulf the pathogen, but are unable to digest the bacteria due to its waxy mycolic acid cell wall ... Primary tuberculosis refers to the infection process which eventually eliminates the pathogen or results in a salemate between the Mycobacteria and the immune system. (Suite101.com)
Key to virulence protein entry into host cells discovered Aug 5, 2008
Researchers from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech have identified the region of a large family of virulence proteins in oomycete plant pathogens that enables the proteins to enter the cells of their hosts. The protein region contains the amino acid sequence motifs RXLR and dEER and has the ability to carry the virulence proteins across the membrane surrounding plant cells without any additional machinery from the pathogen ... The work, which focused on the virulence... (EurekAlert!)
Crime Scene Cleanup Aug 4, 2008
Biohazardous Waste and Blood-borne Pathogens - Decontamination ... Biohazardous waste and blood-borne pathogens need to be removed, and the scene restored ... He continues to explain that blood-borne pathogen's have become more dangerous and easier to contract. (Suite101.com)
Anthrax case raises issues about risk level Aug 4, 2008
Until the anthrax attacks of 2001, Bruce Ivins was one of just a few dozen American bioterrorism researchers working with the most lethal biological pathogens, almost all at high-security military laboratories ... In early 2006, at Texas Aersity, a worker was infected with Brucella bacteria, a pathogen common in livestock that can cause flulike symptoms like fever, fatigue and joint pain, although it is rarely fatal ... Apart from the threat from insiders, some public health experts believe... (San Francisco Chronicle)
What Causes a False Positive TB Ski... Aug 3, 2008
For those with TB, the TST mimics reexposure to the pathogen, and reveals the rapid immune response of antibodies that would be present in a person who had previously been exposed to TB. ... A sputum test can also be done to determine if there is active infection, indicated by the presence of pathogenic Mycobacterium growing in strands, called cords. (Suite101.com)
New Immune Disease Identified Aug 3, 2008
Part of this mechanism is innate (already present at the time of birth) and the remaining part improves as we come into contact with new pathogens ... This reaction serves to isolate and destroy the pathogen and is a warning that something is wrong ... A genetic analysis of the children finally revealed a deficiency in a gene, known as myD88, which is essential for correctly identifying the presence of an infection caused by pathogens and responding to it. (Science Daily)
U.S. probe into salmonella outbreak criticized Aug 2, 2008
The peppers that traveled from Mexico to 43 states and Canada, picking up salmonella somewhere along the way, are the latest in a string of produce-related outbreaks, including a rare and lethal E. coli pathogen that devastated California's spinach industry two years ago ... Fruits and vegetables are essential to a healthy diet yet are vulnerable to contamination by pathogens common in soil, carried in water and harbored in the fecal matter of birds, reptiles and mammals, including humans. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
Closure for families of anthrax victims Aug 2, 2008
Mark Cunningham, op-ed editor for the New York Post, developed an infection on his face after being exposed to the pathogen at work. He woke up Friday morning, turned on the television, and heard that a previously unknown government scientist had taken his life after the FBI focused on him as the chief suspect in the case. (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
Virus Behind Mysterious Parrot Disease Identified Aug 2, 2008
Scientists have theorized for decades that a viral pathogen was the source of the disease, but until now, no one had been able to identify the likely culprit ... A highly infectious respiratory pathogen, the H3N1 influenza A virus. (Science Daily)
New Hope For Answers In Anthrax Case Aug 2, 2008
" Investigators believe Lundgren inhaled the deadly spores from a letter that went through the Wallingford mail facility after becoming contaminated at a New Jersey distribution center through which the original anthrax-laden letters sent to U.S. Sens. Thomas Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont had passed. Davis said her aunt had a habit of tearing junk mail in half and throwing it in the garbage. Authorities believe she inhaled the spores as she ripped an envelope. The news... (FOX61, CT)
Will suicide close case on anthrax? Aug 2, 2008
Scientists familiar with germ warfare said there was no evidence that Ivins, though a vaccine expert with easy access to the most dangerous forms of anthrax, had the skills to turn the pathogen into an inhalable powder. By their own admission, the FBI and the Postal Inspection Service had little expertise in biological weapons in 2001, when they began the investigation. (Seattle Times)
SteriPen Ultraviolet Bacteria and Pathogen Killing Water Wand - 25 Gotta Have Travel Gadgets - TIME Aug 2, 2008
SteriPen Ultraviolet Bacteria and Pathogen Killing Water Wand. Article Tools. (Time.com)
Potential New Drug Target To Fight Tuberculosis Identified Aug 1, 2008
"This is an example of a new class of potential targets for anti-infective agents," continues Dr. Nathan, "those that the pathogen only needs in order to survive in the host environment." ... "That's a huge change from standard anti-infective research, which typically deals with the pathogen simply replicating in culture," explains Dr. Vandal ... The team specifically focused on changes in the pH (acidity) of the phagosome a structure that macrophages use to consume and destroy pathogens,... (Science Daily)
Nation: Salmonella probe likened to 'Keystone Kops' Aug 1, 2008
The CDC is responsible for identifying the pathogen and the type of food that has been contaminated; the FDA is supposed to trace the outbreak to its source. The FDA's food safety chief, Dr. David Acheson, said the agency plans to convene a panel of advisers to review the salmonella investigation. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Fertility: Newly Discovered Proteins In Seminal Fluid Transferred During Mating May Affect Odds Of Producing Offspring Jul 31, 2008
"They change with the quickness we would expect for the immune system, which has to respond fast to new pathogens," MacCoss said ... "We modified a technique to label the females' proteins by feeding them yeast carrying a stable isotope. This made the female proteins in the specimens invisible to our mass spectrometer. We then could pick out the transferred male proteins." This same isotope labeling method, MacCoss said, could be used to detect other proteins transferred from one organism to... (Science Daily)
Garden Microbe Foils E. Coli O157:H7 In Laboratory Tests Jul 30, 2008
ScienceDaily (July 29, 2008) A microbe that may be living peaceably on the beans and cucumbers in backyard gardens might someday be recruited to foil foodborne pathogens. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) geneticist Michael B. Cooley looked at the pathogen-fighting abilities of the farm- and garden-friendly microbe, Enterobacter asburiae, in studies begun in 2002 ... Cooley showed that E. asburiae can significantly reduce the levels of two pathogens--Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella... (Science Daily)
Erie beach quality worsens Jul 30, 2008
E. coli bacteria at elevated levels can indicate the presence of animal or human waste that could contain other pathogens, viruses or diseases. The most common health problems related to pathogen exposure in recreational waters are respiratory illness; ear, nose and throat infections; gastroenteritis; dysentery; and hepatitis. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Soon, vaccine against bio weapons Jul 29, 2008
Writing about their achievement in the Journal of Medical Microbiology, the researchers have revealed that they have made a rapid progress in understanding how the pathogen Francisella tularensis causes disease ... "Because of this and the fact that tularemia can be contracted by inhalation, Francisella tularensis has been designated a potential biological weapon. Since the events of September 2001 and the subsequent anthrax attacks on the USA, concern about the potential misuse of dangerous... (India Times, India)
Putting the squeeze on produce to kill germs Jul 29, 2008
And increasingly popular ready-to-eat foods salads already washed and bagged, fruit peeled and sliced allow another processing step where a single slip-up can introduce pathogens ... Its been known for decades that massive pressure the equivalent of two African elephants standing on a dime is how Tech microbiologist Robert Williams puts it can destroy certain pathogens ... Barachs trade association has petitioned the FDA to allow the irradiation levels, somewhat lower than... (MSNBC -- Health)
Producers go high tech against germs Jul 29, 2008
It's been known for decades that massive pressure can destroy certain pathogens ... Mr. Barach's trade association has petitioned the FDA to allow the irradiation levels, somewhat lower than meat requires, for produce pathogen and other ready-to-eat foods, and hopes for approval by year's end. (The Augusta Chronicle)
On Health Gut check Jul 28, 2008
And by asking why an individual's natural defenses failed, we insert personal responsibility into our national food safety strategy and draw attention to the much larger public health crisis, of which illness from food-borne pathogens is but a symptom: our sick, leaky guts ... Bifidobacterium and lactobacillus, and other natural inhabitants of the human intestinal tract make it their evolutionary job to fight invaders by competing for nutrients (which the invader needs to survive), competing for... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Francisella tularensis: Stopping a biological weapon Jul 28, 2008
Scientists hope a vaccine is on the horizon for tularemia, a fatal disease caused by the pathogen Francisella tularensis, an organism of concern as a potential biological warfare agent ... "Because of this and the fact that tularemia can be contracted by inhalation, Francisella tularensis has been designated a potential biological weapon. Since the events of September 2001 and the subsequent anthrax attacks on the USA, concern about the potential misuse of dangerous pathogens including F.... (EurekAlert!)
Defining DNA differences to track and tackle typhoid Jul 28, 2008
The study sets a new standard for analysing the evolution and spread of a disease-causing bacterium: it is the first study of multiple samples of any bacterial pathogen at this level of detail ... "Both the genome and the proteins that make up the surface of Typhi - the targets for vaccines - show amazingly little variation," says Professor Julian Parkhill, Head of Pathogen Genomics ... The Institute is responsible for the completion of the sequence of approximately one-third of the human genome... (EurekAlert!)
Sick apiary bees threaten wild hives and crops Jul 27, 2008
"Pathogen spillover, whether it's in bumblebees or in something like colony collapse disorder, has the potential to be just devastating for the wild bee communities." ... The study found that up to half the wild bees near greenhouses were infected with the pathogen, while no bees were infected far from greenhouses. (Business Report, South Africa)
At last: Parasites get some respect! Jul 25, 2008
Although Kuris uses "parasite" and "pathogen" rather interchangeably, the study looked only at multi-cellular parasites, not bacteria or viruses, and thus probably underestimates the overall punch of parasites ... "This opens a window of creativity for some very novel strategies for management of infectious disease, rather than just killing the pathogens.". (Why Files)
Prosaro fungicide Jul 23, 2008
Caused by the fungal pathogen Fusarium graminearum, Myers says scab causes reduction in yields, market grade and crop quality ... According to Myers, the infection process is stopped when the pathogen comes in contact with the fungicide. (Midwest Bulls Eye, NE)
Commercial Bees Spreading Disease To Wild Bees Jul 23, 2008
The researchers found that commercial bumble bees often carry a harmful and highly contagious pathogen, Crithidia bombi, and that these bees regularly escape from greenhouses and interact with wild bees at flowers. Near greenhouses, the rates of infection were startling: up to one half of wild bumble bees were infected with C. bombi, whereas no bees harboured this pathogen at sites away from greenhouses ... The mathematical model that Otterstatter and Thomson developed confirmed that pathogen... (Science Daily)
Differential expression of lipoprotein genes in Mycoplasma pneumoniae after contact with human lung epithelial cells, and under oxidative and acidic stress Jul 23, 2008
Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a human pathogen that is a common cause of community-acquired pneumonia. It harbours a large number of lipoprotein genes, most of which are of unknown function. (BioMed Central)
Bill Gates' millions to battle TB Jul 22, 2008
"We are in the midst of a new TB epidemic. The world desperately needs an effect vaccine to prevent TB, particularly in adolescents and adults. Dr Jerald Sadoff: New approaches are promising "Through accelerated research and development, a new vaccine could permanently change the trajectory of the epidemic and save millions of lives every year," he added. Two billion people - one out of every three people on Earth - are infected with the TB pathogen, a bacterium called Mycobacterium... (Yahoo News -- Tuberculosis)
Vet's Corner: Treat pinkeye early to keep damage to a minimum (13) Jul 21, 2008
For years we thought M.bovis was the only pathogen responsible for the problem ... Cultures of the animals have resulted in the growth of Moraxcella ovis, thought to be a pathogen of sheep ... Pinkeye can be best prevented by appropriate vaccination with a vaccine containing the pathogens found in the herd. (Sioux Falls Tri-State Neighbor, SD)
Blood Agar (BAP) Bacterial Growth M... Jul 20, 2008
Blood Agar is a bacterial growth medium that can distinguish normal from pathogenic bacteria based on the interaction of sheep's blood and bacterial hemolytic enzymes ... The major human pathogen in this group is Streptococcus pyogenes, the causative agent of strep throat. (Suite101.com)
New York, not Athens, safest location for NBAF Jul 20, 2008
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News Bytes of the Week--Tomatoes get thumbs-up; but peppers still hot Jul 19, 2008
If the process is so inadequate for tracking down a fairly common pathogen then why would we have any confidence in this agency to protect us from a more serious contaminant. 0. (Scientific American)
