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5. medicine & health: 1. diseases: Diseases: Infectious diseases: Tinea:
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Ringworm also known as dermatophytosis is not a worm at all: It is a fungal infection consisting of several different species of fungus that feeds on keratin the substance found in hair nails and the outer layer of skin within humans and domesticated animals.
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The trees were infested unfortunately with roundworms and insects. President William Howard Taft acting on advice from agriculture officials ordered the trees burned and destroyed.
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Sometimes references include an entire dish for example a skin condition called tinea versicolor is characteristic by its spaghetti and meatball appearance.
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while a small number of fungi can cause disease in humans such as ringworm trichosporonosis or aspergillosis.
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Soil bacteria could yield drug to treat roundworm: Nature Newsa bacterial protein used in a common pesticide kills intestinal parasitic roundworms in mice
and may become a treatment option for humans, researchers say. Intestinal roundworms, including hookworms and whipworms, infect well over one billion people, lowering immune systems for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis and debilitating both physically and cognitively.
The new approach, published today in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases1, uses crystal proteins from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt.
and is a common laboratory model organism for studying human diseases caused by roundworms, such as river blindness and elephantiasis.
Aroian's previous study2 using a type of human intestinal roundworm parasite to infect hamsters showed a 90%reduction in three doses of Bt.
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By using imaging techniques the researchers were able to visualize the plant toxin within the body of the roundworm.
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A freely available food supplement could help in this respect scientists from ETH Zurich have demonstrated in roundworms.
In roundworms these reactive oxygen species prolong life says Ristow. No scientific evidence for usefulness of antioxidantsthis might seem surprising as reactive oxygen species are considered generally to be unhealthy.
After all the metabolic pathway initiated by niacin is very similar in roundworms and higher organisms.
Ristow and his team's work now suggests that the activity of sirtuins actually prolongs life in roundworms.
Studying genetically modified roundworms that were unable to convert nicotinamide into certain other metabolic products the scientists did not observe any lifespan extension even after overexpression of sirtuins which otherwise lead to an increased life expectancy.
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Asexual reproduction as a success model seems to be characteristic of many parasitic fungi including those that afflict humans such as athlete's foot.
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#Chemical trickery explored to help contain potato pestthe pale cyst nematode Globodera pallida is one bad roundworm.
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There's even a reference to an entire dish as a skin condition called tinea versicolor is denoted by its'spaghetti and meatball'appearance.
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One type of animal that naturally produces all fatty acids is the c. elegans roundworm and in 2004 Kang's group reported that mice transgenic for a c. elegans gene called fat-1 converted omega-6s into omega-3s in their tissues.
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Roundwormsthe banana variety Yangambi km5 produces toxic substances that kill the nematode Radopholus similis a roundworm that infects the root tissue of banana plants--to the frustration of farmers worldwide.
and Dirk De Waele (Laboratory for Tropical Crop Improvement) bodes well for the Grande Naine the export banana par excellence which is very susceptible to the roundworms.
This roundworm infects banana crops worldwide. The nematodes are invisible to the naked eye but they can penetrate the roots of banana plants by the thousands.
We have wondered always how the Yangambi km5 fights off roundworms. This study offers an answer.
Researchers have wondered always how the Yangambi km5 manages to fight off roundworms says De Waele. This study goes a long way in answering that.
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