At present, there is no specific active substance against hepatitis E. As the disease kills 70,000 people every year, researchers are actively searching for one. The team from the Department of Molecular and Medical Virology ...
May 15, 2024
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Mounting evidence suggests that the secret to understanding human health and combating metabolic diseases lies hidden within the microscopic world of our gut bacteria.
Feb 20, 2024
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One in five pregnant women carry Streptococcus agalactiae (group B strep or GBS) in the vaginal tract, which is typically harmless—except when it isn't.
Nov 22, 2023
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Clinicians have a new standard for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prevention after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, according to results from a phase III study published June 22 in the New England Journal ...
Jun 22, 2023
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So far, there are no specific drugs to treat the hepatitis E virus. Doctors only have the broad-spectrum antiviral drug ribavirin at their disposal, which is often associated with severe side effects. Drugs against other ...
Jun 21, 2023
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In early 2020, Eric Pringle and Brett Duguay found themselves spending much of their time in their microbiology lab on the seventh floor of Dal's Tupper Building. The virologists were busy testing potential antivirals for ...
Nov 23, 2022
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We've all become familiar with virus mutations over the course of the pandemic, and can all probably list off the COVID variants including alpha, delta and omicron. But now we're hearing more and more about subvariants, as ...
May 25, 2022
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Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have identified a protein in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) that contributes to drug tolerance, a phenomenon that allows bacteria to survive treatment with drugs that would normally kill ...
May 4, 2022
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New research being presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal, (23-26 April), has identified the third day of hospitalization as a tipping point ...
Apr 23, 2022
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Antibiotics, together with antivirals and anti-parasitic drugs, can save the lives of people who've contracted an infectious disease. But the rise of drug-resistance means new strategies are needed. At the end of last year, ...
Apr 4, 2022
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