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Hospital superbug debugged

An international team of scientists led by Monash University researchers has uncovered how a common hospital bacterium becomes a deadly superbug that kills increasing numbers of hospital patients worldwide and accounts for ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Probiotics appear to mitigate pancreatitis: Surprising hypothetical mechanism warrants further investigation

(Medical Xpress) -- A probiotic treatment appears to mitigate pancreatitis in an animal model, leading to a new hypothesis of how probiotics may act, according to a paper in the November Applied and Environmental Microbiology. ...

Medical research created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mouse study explains bacterium's unique role in periodontitis

Scientists say they have solved in mice the mystery of how an unusual bacterium can trigger the common dental condition periodontitis while residing in low numbers in the space between tooth and gum.

Medical research created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Administration of meningococcal vaccine with other routine infant vaccines appears effective

Administration of routine infant immunizations with a vaccine for serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis, a bacterium that is a cause of serious disease such as sepsis and meningitis, was effective against meningococcal strains ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover new HIV vaccine-related tool

(Medical Xpress) -- A new discovery involving two Simon Fraser University scientists could lead to a little known and benign bacterium becoming a vital new tool in the development of a vaccine against human ...

HIV & AIDS created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Can eradicating a common stomach bug make taking aspirin safer?

Researchers have launched a major clinical trial to investigate whether eliminating a common stomach bug could help to make taking aspirin safer in some patients.

Medications created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Clean animals result in fewer E. coli

Sigrun J. Hauge has studied the effect of the measures implemented on farms and in slaughterhouses. The aim of the project "Uncontaminated Carcasses" was to uncover data that would help to improve the hygienic ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Researcher's surprising finding could lead to glanders vaccine

(Medical Xpress)—Apichai Tuanyok dedicated several years to working on a bacterial pathogen in Canada, but his breakthrough occurred in Flagstaff with an unexpected finding on a routine lab report.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Oct 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Next-generation vaccines—eliminating the use of needles

Lead scientist Professor Simon Cutting, from the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway, has developed the jabs through the use of probiotic spores. He carried out fundamental studies into the biology of the bacterium ...

Medications created Oct 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A plan to stop cholera's spread: Professor proposes antibiotics for relief workers to prevent outbreaks

A Harvard medical specialist suggested Monday that relief workers and peacekeepers from cholera-endemic countries should be treated with antibiotics before they serve in other nations, to avoid repeating ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Oct 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New tick disease in Switzerland

Microbiologists from the University of Zurich have detected a new disease transmitted via tick bites. The patients suffered from fever, weight loss and malaise, but could be cured fully with a course of antibiotics. Thanks ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Oct 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Missing link' discovered in the defense mechanism of the tuberculosis pathogen

Flemish biologists lead by Joris Messens (VIB / Vrije Universiteit Brussel) have discovered that Mycobacterium tuberculosis – the bacterium that causes tuberculosis – has an ingenious defence mechanism against oxygen ...

Medical research created Nov 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A drug used to treat HIV might defuse deadly staph infections

A new study by NYU School of Medicine researchers suggests that an existing HIV drug called maraviroc could be a potential therapy for Staphylococcus aureus, a notorious and deadly pathogen linked to hundreds of thousands of hos ...

HIV & AIDS created Dec 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Staphylococcus aureus: Why it just gets up your nose

A collaboration between researchers at the School of Biochemistry and Immunology and the Department of Microbiology at Trinity College Dublin has identified a mechanism by which the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus (S. au ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gingivitis bacteria manipulate your immune system so they can thrive in your gums

A new research report published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology shows how the bacteria known for causing gum disease—Porphyromonas gingivalis—manipulates the body's immune system to disable normal processes that would ot ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 03, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast