Archive for the ‘Infectious Diseases’ Category
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) have announced that it has been selected by Blue Shield of California Foundation (BSCF) to participate in a statewide effort to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
APIC will join BSCF and other leading health organizations to expand the Foundation's innovative California Healthcare-Associated ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
"We have identified a key connection of signaling pathways in the cascade of events leading to sepsis. This defines a crucial point where the immune system spirals out of control to cause severe sepsis and where there is an opportunity for therapeutic intervention," says Scripps Research Professor Wolfram Ruf, who ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Scientists have identified the role of two proteins that contribute to disease-causing bacteria cells' versatility in resisting certain classes of antibiotics.
The finding is a step toward development of drug therapies that could target bacterial resistance at its cellular source. Before researchers can design such drugs, they must understand all of ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
An analysis of global trends in new infectious diseases suggests that we are looking in the wrong places for the world's next major outbreak.
The study is the work of Dr Kate Jones, Senior Research Fellow, based at Institute of Zoology, London, and colleagues, and was published on 21st February in ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Wednesday that the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Paraguay asked the WHO ICG (International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision) to provide 2 million doses of yellow fever vaccine.
This is in addition to the various efforts by neighbouring countries to mobilize their own vaccine ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Integrated Genomics announced the publication of the complete Granulibacter bethesdensis genome sequence, the first acetic acid bacteria to be identified as an agent of an emerging invasive human disease.
Granulibacter bethesdensis is the first organism to be linked to chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), an invasive human disease resulting from a genetic ...
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
Advice from a Saint Louis University germ expert is music to the ears of those who dread the annual tradition of spring cleaning.
Don't go overboard, cautions Donna Duberg, assistant professor of clinical laboratory science at Saint Louis University's Doisy College of Health Sciences.
"Ask yourself the question: How contaminated is my ...
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
A research team from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, examining bacterial isolates obtained in hospital and non-hospital clinical settings between 2000 and 2006, has identified drug-resistant strains of E. coli and Klebsiella bacteria in more than 50 blood, urine and respiratory samples. These resistant strains, ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Researchers from Monash University and CSIRO Livestock Industries have demonstrated for the first time that alpha-toxin protein, long thought to be required for necrotic enteritis to develop, is not the main cause of the chicken disease. The study, published February 8 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, provides insight into ...
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