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Use wipes in the kitchen to reduce risk of food poisoning by 99 percent Wiley
• Food & Nutrition • • Infections • May 01 15
Consumers can reduce the risk of Campylobacter food poisoning by up to 99.2% by using disinfectant wipes in the kitchen after preparing poultry. This…
Northwestern medicine researchers solve mystery of deadly transplant infection
• Infections • • Surgery • Apr 28 15
When Harlan Dorbin passed away from a rare infection one month after his successful lung transplant surgery, his surgeon turned to Dorbin’s sister and…
Delaying treatment for hepatitis C puts patients’ lives at risk
• Immunology • • Infections • Apr 23 15
Data revealed today at The International Liver Congress™ 2015 highlights the impact of delaying treatment for the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Researchers found that…
Preliminary results show Civacir prevents recurrence of hepatitis C in liver transplants
• Infections • Apr 23 15
New data from an ongoing Phase III trial revealed today at The International Liver CongressTM 2015 show that the use of hepatitis C immune…
Brazilian study suggests adjustments on the treatment of cancer patients with pneumonia
• Cancer • • Infections • Apr 13 15
Cancer patients are more likely to get infections. Pneumonia is the most frequent type of infection in this group and a frequent cause of…
Gene study helps explain Legionnaires’ probe complications
• Infections • • Respiratory Problems • Apr 08 15
Genetic research helps to explain why tracing the source of an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease that claimed four lives has proven to be more…
How a deadly fungus evades the immune system
• Immunology • • Infections • Mar 31 15
New research from the University of Toronto has scientists re-thinking how a lethal fungus grows and kills immune cells. The study hints at a…
Chikungunya virus may be coming to a city near you - learn the facts
• Infections • Mar 27 15
The mosquito-borne chikungunya virus has been the subject of increasing attention as it spreads throughout South America, Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico. This…
Cochrane Review of effectiveness of point of care diagnostics for schistosomiasis
• Infections • Mar 11 15
Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Disease Group, hosted at LSTM, have conducted an independent review to assess how well point of care tests detect…
Infant gut bacteria and food sensitization: Associations in the first year of life
• Children's Health • • Allergies • • Infections • Mar 04 15
A new study from Canadian researchers at the University of Alberta and University of Manitoba is shedding new light on changes in intestinal bacteria…
Can a bacterial virus from Jerusalem sewage prevent root canal infections?
• Dental Health • • Infections • Feb 18 15
Every year, drug-resistant infections kill more than 50,000 people across Europe and the United States, and hundreds of thousands more around the world. According…
Ebola has lessons for local health departments’ role in health crises
• Infections • • Public Health • Feb 12 15
Experience with the Ebola outbreak highlights local health departments’ essential role in responding to global health threats posed by infectious diseases, according to a…
Antiviral compound protects nonhuman primates against Ebola virus
• Infections • Feb 10 15
Scientists protected 75 percent of rhesus monkeys infected with Ebola virus that were treated with a compound targeting the expression of VP24, a single…
High rates of child deaths from Ebola, special care needed: WHO
• Infections • • Mortality and Morbidity • Feb 06 15
Authorities fighting Ebola must do more to tackle a high death rate among young children whose isolation from parents also causes great distress…
Five babies at suburban Chicago daycare center have measles
• Children's Health • • Infections • Feb 06 15
Five babies at a suburban Chicago daycare center have been diagnosed with measles, adding to a growing outbreak of the disease across the United…
Taking immunosuppressives, anti-cancer drugs may reactivate hepatitis B
• Cancer • • Drug News • • Infections • Feb 05 15
Individuals previously infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) who receive chemotherapy or immunosuppressive treatment may be at risk of reactivating the disease according…
Lyme disease costs up to $1.3 billion per year to treat, study finds
• Infections • Feb 05 15
Lyme disease, transmitted by a bite from a tick infected by the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria, had long been considered easy to treat, usually requiring…
Birth method, gestation duration may alter infants’ gut microbiota
• Childbirth • • Infections • Feb 03 15
Environmental factors like mode of delivery and duration of gestation may affect how infants’ gut bacteria mature, and that rate could help predict later…
How malaria-spreading mosquitoes can tell you’re home
• Infections • Jan 23 15
Females of the malaria-spreading mosquito tend to obtain their blood meals within human dwellings. Indeed, this mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, spends much of its adult…
You are what you eat - How gut bacteria affect brain health
• Brain • • Infections • Jan 22 15
The hundred trillion bacteria living in an adult human - mostly in the intestines, making up the gut microbiome - have a significant impact…
Antibiotic use by travelers may add to global spread of superbugs
• Infections • Jan 22 15
Taking antibiotics for diarrhea may put travelers visiting developing parts of the world at higher risk for contracting superbugs and spreading these daunting drug-resistant…
Study shows how Ebola becomes lethal as it spreads
• Infections • Jan 21 15
Scientists investigated why Ebola virus is so deadly when it spreads from animals to humans and then from human-to-human contact. The research team looked…
Bacteria could contribute to development of wound-induced skin cancer
• Cancer • • Infections • Jan 12 15
Researchers at King’s College London have identified a new mechanism by which skin damage triggers the formation of tumours, which could have important therapeutic…
Skin microbes trigger specific immune responses
• Immunology • • Infections • Jan 06 15
New research in mice shows that the immune system in the skin develops distinct responses to the various microbes that naturally colonize the skin,…
Resistance to anti-viral drug may be more likely in cystic fibrosis patients
• Infections • • Respiratory Problems • Dec 19 14
A drug called ganciclovir is given to lung transplant patients to protect against a life-threatening virus that is common after transplantation.
Ganciclovir reduces…