Health
Prevention better than fecal transplants
Most people would think nothing of sharing a bed, knife or fork with their spouse, but would you ever share poo?
May 10, 2016
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News tagged with virulence
Medical research
Scientists develop mouse model to study mpox virulence
Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have removed a major roadblock to better understanding of mpox (formerly, monkeypox). They developed ...
Feb 15, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Experimental vaccine protects monkeys from blinding trachoma
An attenuated, or weakened, strain of Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria can be used as a vaccine to prevent or reduce the severity of trachoma, the world's leading cause of infectious blindness, suggest findings from a National ...
Oct 10, 2011
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Cambodian girl, 10, dies from bird flu: WHO
A 10-year-old Cambodian girl has died from bird flu, the World Health Organization said Monday, the country's third fatality from the virulent disease this year.
May 28, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Bubonic plague claims 32 lives in Madagascar (Update)
Bubonic plague, which wiped out a third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages, has reared its ugly head in the African island state of Madagascar where 32 people have died in a fresh outbreak of the so-called Black Death ...
Dec 20, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
E-cigarettes may boost resistance of drug-resistant pathogens
Despite being touted by their manufacturers as a healthy alternative to cigarettes, e-cigarettes appear in a laboratory study to increase the virulence of drug- resistant and potentially life-threatening bacteria, while decreasing ...
May 18, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
China faces 'serious' epidemic of drug-resistant TB (Update)
China faces a "serious epidemic" of drug-resistant tuberculosis according to the first-ever nationwide estimate of the size of the problem there, said a US-published study on Wednesday.
Jun 6, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Shellfish toxin spreading to eastern US, report says
(HealthDay)—An illness-causing bacteria found in shellfish, previously limited to the Pacific Northwest United States, is showing up in East Coast shellfish and in Europe, a new report warns.
Oct 16, 2013
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Medications
Building evolution-proof drugs
A new generation of drugs could help combat the growing number of bacterial diseases that are becoming resistant to antibiotics, a study reveals.
Mar 20, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Good bacteria armed with antibiotic resistance protect gut microbiome
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland have discovered that populating the gastrointestinal (GI) tracts of mice with Bacteroides species producing a specific enzyme helps protect the good commensal ...
Jun 12, 2014
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