Four hundred and eighteen adults were inoculated with a respiratory virus and cultures performed serially. Herpesvirus hominis was isolated 27 times from 21 subjects (5 per cent). A random ...

The growth of Mycoplasma hominis is stimulated by arginine. A possible mechanism for degradation of this amino acid is the arginine dihydrolase pathway. The first enzyme of the pathway, arginine ...

Extract of Hominis Placenta (HP) has been used in oriental medicine as an agent for improving physiological function. The present study was conducted to investigate whether HP treatment in an ...

Mycoplasma are bacteria (or germs) that can infect different parts of your body. Which body part is affected -- your lungs, skin, or urinary tract -- depends on which type of mycoplasma bacteria is ...

In a matter of months, the specialty surgical robotics producer Memic leapt from an FDA green light to a $96 million funding round, and now to an acquisition agreement that promises to take the ...

For many, body odor is an unfortunate side effect of their daily lives. The smell is caused by bacteria on the skin breaking down naturally secreted molecules contained within sweat. Now scientists ...

A research team has synthesized a lysin that during in vitro experiments targets bacteria responsible for producing odors in human armpits. Body odor from the armpits comes from bacteria metabolizing ...