Saturday, January 14, 2023





Light as a potential treatment for pandemic coronavirus infections: A perspective 


"The evidence shows that violet/blue (400–470 nm) light is antimicrobial against numerous bacteria, and that it accounts for Niels Ryberg Finsen's Nobel-winning treatment of tuberculosis. Further evidence shows that blue light inactivates several viruses, including the common flu coronavirus, and that in experimental animals, red and near infrared light reduce respiratory disorders, similar to those complications associated with coronavirus infection."


Chukuka Samuel Enwemeka, Violet Vakunseh Bumah, Daniela Santos Masson-Meyers 








First book to present the mechanism explaining why light is effective in the treatment of so many illnesses and diseases.
  • Offers a systematic approach to the field of Light-Activated Tissue Regeneration and Therapy covering theory, basic research, clinical studies, and therapies.


  • Includes extensive papers and coverage on such interesting topics as pain, wound healing, diabetes, cardiovascular and stroke repair, neuroscience/progenitor, and stem cells.



Editors: Ronald Waynant, Darrell B. Tata



Tuesday, October 23, 2018






                           






 

SUPER-SUPERBUG CLONES INVADE THE GULF STATES   



UQ Centre for Clinical Research group leader Dr Hosam Zowawi said his team had witnessed rapid growth of the new multi-drug resistant clones – variants of existing superbugs in the Gulf States, but which had never before seen in the region.

                                   

Monday, April 2, 2018






Sleepwalking towards an antibiotic apocalypse




“Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse” was a blog post written by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning Americans to prepare for natural disasters ­– particularly pandemics – as though they were being hunted by flesh-eating zombies.

Tuesday, June 13, 2017



Multidrug-resistant infections rising in US kids


"Once these organisms are in the community,  .
..they will spread," 

Meropol said:
 "We can catch them anywhere."





Monday, July 11, 2016


     "In early April, experts at a military lab outside Washington intensified their search for evidence that: 
             a dangerous new biological threat had penetrated the nation's borders."


  'A slow catastrophe unfolds´ as the golden age of antibiotics comes to an end. 

    “It’s not apocalyptic until it is,”  said Peter Pitts, president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest 
     and former associate commissioner of the FDA. 







                        

Monday, June 20, 2016





Some bacteria naturally grow as filaments, e.g., members of the actinomycetes. 
Many others, e.g.,E. coli and B. subtilis, make filaments only when under stress — a fact that has been known for about one hundred years but is still a bit of a mystery.

"WHY DO BACTERIA FILAMENT"


by: Moselio (Elio) Schaechter & Roberto Kolter











Then and now: use of 16S rDNA gene sequencing for bacterial identification and discovery of novel bacteria in clinical microbiology laboratories