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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Study provides clues to improving fecal microbiota transplantation

Results from a placebo-controlled trial provide a strategy for improving fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) for patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. The study, published online this week in mBio, an ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Study generates Soviet anthrax pathogen genome from autopsy specimens

A new study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Northern Arizona University (NAU) used deep DNA sequencing methods to generate the anthrax genome sequence from the victims of the 1979 anthrax outbreak ...

Medical research

Fungi contribute to delayed healing of chronic wounds

Researchers in Pennsylvania and Iowa have discovered that fungal communities found in chronic wounds can form mixed bacterial-fungal biofilms and can be associated with poor outcomes and longer healing times. Their report, ...

Overweight & Obesity

Is a messed-up microbiome linked to obesity? New study casts doubt

For people with weight problems, news headlines in recent years may have brought relief, as researchers studying the microscopic creatures inside our bodies reported possible links between obesity and an out-of-whack balance ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New Zika clone could be new model for developing vaccine

Stopping the explosive spread of Zika virus - which can lead to birth defects in babies born to infected mothers - depends on genetic insights gleaned through new tools and models. Researchers at the National Institutes of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New model sheds light on secondary bacterial pneumonia

August 9, 2016 - For years, researchers have known that the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) can trigger severe, sometimes deadly secondary bacterial pneumonia, in some people who are subsequently infected with ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Vaccines fail to protect obese mice from severe influenza infections

A study led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital found that obese mice are not protected against influenza infections by vaccines that include adjuvants, raising concerns about vaccine effectiveness in obese humans who ...

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