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Pittsburgh Pirates 3B Pedro Alvarez has shown some improvement at the plate, hitting safely in 15 of his past 17 after the game Wednesday, June 19, against the Cincinnati Reds. However, he entered the game with 81 strikeouts in ...

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"Pedro has the ability to shrink any park we play in ... The ability to drive in runs and be a run producer is quite evident. We knew it was a special talent when we drafted him. You see it play out throughout the season from time to time."

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Cutting off energy supply cripples resistant bugs

Feb 12 2013, 5:24am CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Washington, Feb 12 (IANS) Rice University researchers crippled a bug's ability to resist antibiotics by cutting off its energy supply, gaining the upper hand against such pathogens.

Washington, Feb 12 — Rice University researchers crippled a bug's ability to resist antibiotics by cutting off its energy supply, gaining the upper hand against such pathogens.

Rice environmental engineer Pedro Alvarez and his team managed to neutralise Pseudomonas aeruginosa micro-organism's ability to resist the antibiotic tetracycline, by limiting its access to food and oxygen, the sole source of its energy.

Over 120 generations, the starving bacteria chose to conserve valuable energy rather than use it to pass on the plasmid -- a small and often transmissible DNA element -- that allows it to resist tetracycline, the journal Environmental Science and Technology reports.

The results are the latest in a long effort to understand the environmental aspects of antibiotic resistance, which threatens decades of progress in fighting disease, according to a Rice statement.

"The propagation of antibiotic resistance has been perceived as a medical or microbiology-related problem," Alvarez said.

"But what many people miss is that it is also an environmental pollution problem. A lot of the antibiotic-resistant bacteria originate in animal agriculture, where there is overuse, misuse and abuse of antibiotics."

"We started with the hypothesis that microbes don't like to carry excess baggage," he said.

"That means they will drop genes they're not using because there is a metabolic burden, a high energy cost, to keeping them."

The Rice researchers tested their theory on two strains of bacteria, P. aeruginosa, which is found in the soil, and E. coli, which carries resistant genes directly from animals through their faeces into the environment.

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