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MRSA toxin acquitted: Study clears suspected key to severe bacterial illness

...ons can affect vital organs and lead to widespread infection (sepsis), toxic shock syndrome and flesh-eating pn...ests with mice that displayed skin and soft-tissue infection and bacterial sepsis. "The strains were just as deadly with or without the PVL toxin," says lead ...

Antibiotic treats lymphoma of the eye

...earch has suggested an association between OAL and infection with the bacteria Chlamydia psittaci. Andres J. M. Ferreri, M.D., of the San Raffaele H Scientific Institute in Milan, Italy, and colleagues examined whether doxycycline was an effective treatment for OAL. They gave 27 OAL patients a 3-week cou...

British cattle give TB to badgers, finds UC Davis expert

...s to cattle. Instead, after four years of culling, infection rates in badger had doubled. "Culling disrupts ba...nary Laboratories Agency. The biggest increases in infection rates happened in culling areas that could most easily be repopulated by badgers migrating in from n...

Einstein researchers demonstrate a novel approach to treating AIDS

...ple within 24 hours of exposure to HIV can prevent infection from developing," he says. "But if several days ha...oimmunotherapy, we may be able to prevent lifelong infection in these people by eliminating those initially infected cells." Clinical trials using radioimmunot...

Researchers seek to design first treatment for neuroAIDS

... against neuroAIDS, the nerve damage caused by HIV infection that lessens many patients' ability to think and move. As evidence of the progress, researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center today received a $7 million grant to confirm that two new drug classes can protect the brain from HIV-relate...

'Protecting virus' offers instant flu protection and converts flu infections into their own vaccines

...vents flu symptoms developing by slowing influenza infection rates to such an extent that the harmful infection becomes a vaccine against that very form of influenza. It can also counter an actual infection and o...

Household transmission of SARS: Lessons learned

...esulted from household transmission (spread of the infection within a household). Wilson-Clark and colleagues studied the characteristics of these household transmissions and report on risk factors that contributed to the spread of infection. Primary risk factors for transmission fall into 3 areas: the durat...

Early HIV treatment fails to restore memory T cells

... years of treatment for HIV. In recent years, HIV infection has been shown to deplete the body’s memory T cell...od can return and remain at normal levels when HIV infection is treated with antiviral drugs, it has been unclear whether the intestinal mucosal memory cells ret...

Discovery of the first resistance gene to rice yellow mottle virus

...a, and of the African variety, O. glaberrima, RYMV infection does not generally produce leaf symptoms, or have ...roteins in order to accomplish each stage of their infection cycle. One of the proteins that the RYMV requires appears to be the eIF(iso)4G translation initiatio...

HIV-1 kills immune cells in the gut that may never bounce back

...and whether giving patients HAART during the early infection period helped restore these cells to the GI lining...er contracting the virus -- during the acute early infection phase -- and who they followed from one to seven years. The researchers found that although the bloo...

New drug blocks influenza, including bird flu virus

...and in mice, conferred complete protection against infection and was highly effective in treating animals in the early stages of infection. Untreated infected animals typically died within a week. All of the infected animals treated with small doses of the drug at the onset of symptoms survived. "Pretreatmen...

To slow AIDS in Russia, treat HIV-positive addicts, Stanford study says

...rs. According to the United Nations, Russia's HIV infection rate is among the fastest-growing in the world. By...ion in St. Petersburg, Russia. They accounted for infection rates among drug users and non-drug users and the reduced viral transmissibility and increased life...

Environmental toxins may cause body's defenses to worsen lung disease

...d cells responsible for targeting and fighting off infection in the body, continually survey the epithelial cel... diesel exhaust--to determine how cells respond to infection and toxicant-induced cell damage. "By looking at how the cells react to these stimuli, we hope to ...

Study shows antibiotic-resistant bacteria responsible for increase in muscle infections

...ong antibiotic. Pyomyositis is an acute bacterial infection of skeletal muscle that produces an abscess within the muscle. Myositis is also a muscle infection, but does not form an abscess. The study authors investigated the 45 cases of pyomyositis or myositis in otherwise healthy children who were hospitaliz...

Malaria may fuel spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

...In turn, the weakening of the immune system by HIV infection has fueled a rise in adult malaria-infection rates and may have facilitated the expansion of malaria in Africa," said Kublin, an HIV/AIDS scientist in the Hutchinson Center's Clinical Research Division. Using a mathematical model designed by Abu-Ra...

Researchers identify new weapon to fight deadly bacterial sepsis

...dangerous risks of contracting a serious bacterial infection is that the victim may develop sepsis--an overreac... explained that in this disease, "You can treat an infection and kill off all the bacteria, but there are still two things causing damage -- the inflammatory pro...

What does the public really know about HPV?

...ration (FDA) approved the first vaccine to prevent infection of two high risk types of HPV, and two types that cause genital warts. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended it for females 9 to 26 years of age. Two studies presented today at the American Association for Cancer Res...

Malaria treatment efficacy compromised in certain HIV-positive patients

A weakened immune response resulting from HIV infection can lead to trouble when it comes to treating mala... "HIV-1 associated immune suppression, rather than infection with HIV-1 per se, is the main determinant of malaria treatment outcome," says Dr. Van geertruyden. ...

Ebola-outbreak kills 5000 gorillas

...roubling are recent studies showing that the Ebola infection wave is spreading rapidly towards several of the r...spillover. The consistent spread rate of the Ebola infection wave also suggests that vaccination could be targeted just ahead of the advancing wave. The curre...

Study IDs protein that inhibits HIV from growing in cell cultures

...alled GB Virus type C (GBV-C) protects against HIV infection is now better understood. Researchers at the Depar...'s principal author. GBV-C and its role in HIV infection have been studied for nearly a decade by Xiang, along with another study author Jack Stapleton, M.D....

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