Tag Archives: Bacteria

E.coli Genome Discover Who Killed 17 People

Cucumbers allegedly bacteria has already caused 17 deaths in Germany and that German scientists were given the task of decoding the genome of the bacterium and the conclusion was announced today by the University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf Discovered a lethal variant of E. coli, ie the combination of a ‘distant relative’ of the most common [...]

Brief history of the discovery of modern antibiotics

The discovery of antibiotics occurred ‘accidentally’ when Alexander Fleming, in 1928, forgot to clean up the stocks of bacteria in a petri dish and left it on the shelf wash over the weekend. On Monday, when the Petri dishes will be cleared, he saw some mold has grown in the media and the surrounding mold [...]