http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Scientists at the University of Liverpool are working to identify genes involved in the development of bacterial meningitis to support the search for new vaccine candidates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-analysing-meningitis-genes-treatments.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:56:02 EST news285576955 Scientists at the Academy of Finland's Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference Research have developed novel computational methods that have yielded essential knowledge of how hospital-acquired bacteria spread and develop. These new methods, based on randomised algorithms, make it possible to analyse extensive genomic data significantly faster and more efficiently than previously. By applying these results, it is possible to better follow hospital-acquired infections in the future, or even fight them in real time. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-methods-reveal-hospital-acquired-bacteria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:14:29 EST news277553501 Exposure to cigarette smoke has long been associated with increased frequency of respiratory infections—which are harder to treat in smoke-exposed people than in those who lack such exposures. Now Ritwij Kulkarni of Columbia University, New York, NY, and colleagues show that cigarette smoke actually boosts virulence of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. Their study appears in the November 2012 issue of the journal Infection and Immunity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-cigarette-boosts-virulence-staphylococcus-aureus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:45:02 EST news271611884 (HealthDay) -- The incidence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in the United States is increasing and is associated with follicular infection, most commonly folliculitis followed by furunculosis, according to a review published online July 16 in the British Journal of Dermatology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-mrsa-skin-infections-linked-furunculosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:30:01 EST news262620927 Antivirulence drugs disarm pathogens rather than kill them, and although they could be effective in theory, antivirulence drugs have never been tested in humans. A new study to be published in the online journal mBio on Tuesday, October 18 reveals these drugs have the potential to fight infection while avoiding the pitfalls of drug resistance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-antivirulence-drugs-infections-resistance.html Medical research Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:29:01 EST news237486525 Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have discovered a way to block the damaging actions of Chlamydia, the bacteria responsible for the largest number of sexually transmitted infections in the United States. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-newly-molecule-blocks-chlamydia-bacteria.html Medical research Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:33:42 EST news230384010