New Tests For Respiratory Illnesses Can Look For More Than 20 Pathogens At A Time

 Is it Covid or the Flu?  New Combo Tests Can Find Out by Roxanne Khamsi.  The New York Times.  May 11, 2021.  

Changing Guidelines For Urine Tests

Rx For Doctors:  Stop With The Urine Tests by Paula Span.  The New York Times.  October 14, 2019.

College Students Face Higher Risk of Meningitis B

Deadly Meningitis B Targets College Students by Alan Mozes.  Medical Xpress.  January 2, 2019

Some Gut Bacteria Are Capable Of Producing Electricity

Scientists Find That Hundreds Of Gut Bacteria Are Electric by Maria Cohut.  Medical News Today.  September 13, 2018. 

Gut Bacteria That Function In The Metabolism Of Carbs May Hold Key To Weight Loss

Can't Lose Weight?  Your Gut Bacteria Could Be To Blame, According To Study by Kashmira Gander.  Newsweek.  August 1, 2018. 

Fiber Feeds Billions of Gut Bateria Keeping Immune Systems in Good Order

Fiber Is Good For You.  Now Scientists May Know Why by Carl Zimmer.  The New York Times.  January 1, 2017. 

A Quarter Of Nursing Home Residents Are Colonized By Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria

1 In 4 Nursing Home Residents Has Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria by Serena Gordon.  Health Day.  May 31

Gut Bacteria And The Brain: The Science Of Psychobiotics

The Current State Of Psychobiotics.  Cell Press/Science Daily.  October 25, 2016

Should You Let Your Dog Lick Your Face? Beware Of Zoonotic Bacteria

Should You Let Your Dog Lick Your Face?  by Christopher Mele.  The New York Times.  October 21, 2016

Microbiology, Genomics And Population Genetics Combine To The Examine The Ecology Of Micro-organisms In New York Subway

Big Data And Bacteria:  Mapping The New York Subway's DNA by Robert Lee Hotz.  Wall Street Journal.  February 5, 2015.

Survey: Antibiotics Often Prescribed Even When Not Appropriate

Doctors, Patients Rely On Antibiotics by Ashley Hayes.  WebMD.  June 27, 2014.

Lyme's Disease Bacteria Older Than The Human Race; Shows Importance Of Tick-Borne Vectors

Amber Discovery Indicates Lyme Disease Is Older Than Human Race.  Science Daily.  May 29, 2014.

Study Sees Bigger Role For Placenta In Newborns' Health

Study Sees Bigger Role For Placenta In Newborns' Health by Denise Grady.  The New York Times.  May 21, 2014.

Placenta Not Sterile; May Be Source Of Intestinal and Oral Bacteria; Potential Explanation For Link Between Periodontal Disease and Premature Birth

Placenta "Not A Sterile Environment,"  Study Suggests.  Medical News Today.  May 22, 2014.

Bacteria Find Airplanes Are Friendly Environments; Can Live For Up To A Week; Cleaning And Hand Sanitizers Needed

Deadly Germs Can Live In Aircraft Cabins For A Week by Jessica Firger.  CBSNEWS.COM.  May 20, 2014

No One Single Microbiome Associated With Healthy People; Many Bacteria Factors At Work In Determining Effective Therapies

Scientists Re-define What's Healthy In Newest Analysis For Human Microbiome Project.  Science Daily. April 16, 2014.

Study points to the individual uniqueness of what it means to be healthy.

Water Distribution Provides Opportunities for Organisms To Survive And Flourish

A Quest For Even Safer Drinking Water by Peter Andrey Smith.  The New York Times.  August 26, 2013.

(1)  In 2007/2008 there were 164 waterborne disease outbreaks almost entirely from ____________.

(2)  The water supply system remains a _______________________________ so complex that _______________________________________.

(3)  Chlorine-based disinfectants destroy organisms that cause __________________ but leave many millions of ________________________ organisms in every quart of tap water.

(4)  Mycobacteria can survive _____________ and cause an estimated ____________ infections annually.

(5)  Genetically-identical strains of mycobacteria have been identified in the lungs of affected patients and __________________.

(6)  Water drawn from the faucet is markedly different from _________________________.

(7)  Bacteria can evade disinfectant in an amoeba's digestive system surviving for up to _______________.

(8)  How does biofilm contribute to distribution of organisms in distribution system?

(9)  Pathogens exist at greater concentrations in systems with more ____________.

(10)  A great fear is that the engineered environments, such as the water distribution system, will contribute to ___________________.

Lyme Disease Much Bigger Problem Than Previously Thought; New Preventive Measures Considered

U.S. Lyme Disease Cases Vastly Underreported:  CDC.  U.S. News & World Report.  August 1, 2013.

(1)  About ___________ cases of Lyme disease are reported to the CDC each year out of approximately _______________ diagnosed cases.

(2)  About ________ percent of cases occur in _______ states.

(3)  Preventive measures such as ________________ are effective aren't fail proof pointing to the need for _____________________.

(4)

Stool Donation: A Personal Story

Why I Donated My Stool by Marie Myung-0k Lee.  The New York Times.  July 6, 2013.

(1)  F.M.T. is explored in this article as an alternative to treatments such as ______________ durgs and total ____________.

(2)  F.M.T is _____________________.

(3)  Bacteria in the gut can serve many functions including ____________________________.

(4)  Bacteria in a healthy human bowel are involved in ____________________

(5)  True or False:  Many adverse reactions to F.M.T have been recorded worldwide.

(6)  How has an FDA regulation impacted the use of F.M.T?

(7)  True or False:  F.M.T. must be performed in a hospital.

(8)  In an ideal future, a screening procedure may allow healthy people to donate their _________-

(9)

Human Skin Fungal Diversity Revealed In First Genomic Survey

First Genomic Survey Of Human Skin Fungal Diversity.  Science Digest.  May 22, 2013.

Read the article and answer the questions to improve retention.

(1)  Two key purposes of the survey is to define ________ populations across the skin and establish a ________ for investigating fungal skin conditions.

(2)  Hands have a great diversity of ______ but relatively few types of _______.

(3)  True or False:  Feet contain little diversity of fungi.

(4)  Understanding the fungal and bacterial ecosystems can help physicians address skin conditions related to _______ treatments.

(5)  In the study, those with heel site infections have _________ fungal communities on the heel.

(6)  Toenail infections compared from individual to individual showed _____________ fungal communities.

(7)  The most common fungus found on the human skin was ______________.

(8)  Diversity of fungi is highly dependent on _________ rather than _____________.

(9)  The _______ is the most complex site, home to about ______ genus-levels types of fungi.

(10)  The feet have high measures of __________ and lower levels of _______________.

(11)  True or False:  Fungal communities change drastically over time.

(12)