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Learning to love bacteria: Stanford scientist highlights bugs' benefits

...isms in question - such as the bacteria that cause pneumonia or meningitis - are innocuous, he said. It's just that most of the individuals do not get disease from being infected. The best recent example of this, said Falkow, is H. pylori. First identified only 25 years ago, the organism earned researchers la...

Scientists look to the Bahamas as a model for coral reef conservation

...isms in question - such as the bacteria that cause pneumonia or meningitis - are innocuous, he said. It's just that most of the individuals do not get disease from being infected. The best recent example of this, said Falkow, is H. pylori. First identified only 25 years ago, the organism earned researchers la...

Bocavirus infection may be associated with pneumonia in Thailand, especially in children

...d human bocavirus was found in nearly 5 percent of pneumonia patients in rural Thailand, mostly in very young c...ggests that human bocavirus may be associated with pneumonia in Thailand, especially among young children," says Alicia Fry, one of the researchers on the study....

Flu not the only germ threat this time of year

...annually as the biggest cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia among infants and children under 1 year of age. F...aused more than 10 percent of hospitalizations for pneumonia during the winter. "At least with the flu, we have something to control it ?a vaccine," Falsey said...

Outsmarting the smartie bug

...s infections, and rarer, invasive disease, such as pneumonia and meningitis. About one in three children each year has an ear infection, of which about one-third will be due to the pneumococcus. More significantly, invasive disease is a major cause of death: around 1 million people, mostly young children in de...

Study indicates dramatic rise in antibiotic-resistant community-acquired staph infections

...boils or abscesses to necrotizing skin infections, pneumonia and sometimes blood stream infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that staph is one of the leading causes of skin infections in the United States. Previously, scientists have categorized staph into two main types:...

UGA scientists unravel 'molecular inch-worm' structure of walking-pneumonia bacterium

...walking pneumonia," a term that describes cases of pneumonia that are distinct from acute, life-threatening pneumonia requiring a patient's hospitalization. Krause and others have been increasingly interested in the...

Gene chip technology shows potential for identifying life-threatening blood infection

...spital with a cough and had a working diagnosis of pneumonia or someone came in with abdominal pain with a suspicion of infection, wouldn't it be wonderful if we could run a blood test in the emergency department and more accurately triage patients so they could be treated earlier with the appropriate antibiot...

SARS: No evidence that any of the treatments worked

...(SARS) is caused by a virus; the main symptoms are pneumonia and fever. The virus is passed on when people sneeze or cough. In 2003 there were over 8,000 cases and 774 deaths worldwide. The situation was alarming, because the first ever cases only appeared in 2002, in China, and so the best way to treat this n...

Air travel and flu: Post-9/11 restrictions delayed start of season

...analyzed government records on deaths from flu and pneumonia in cities from nine regions of the US between 1996 and 2005. For each year, they determined the time it took for the epidemic to spread across the country and the date of the national peak in flu deaths. They used government estimates of passenger ai...

Lab-on-a-chip could speed up treatment of drug-resistant pneumonia

...tening infections such as pneumonia. "When you get pneumonia in the hospital, you're much more likely to get a ... we'll cover 80 to 90 percent of hospital-acquired pneumonia cases," Lochhead said. The company also hopes to apply the technology not just to identifying kno...

New approach could lower antibiotic requirements by 50 times

...ct,' Hagens explains. Pseudomonas bacteria cause pneumonia and are a common cause of hospital-acquired infections. Experiments in mice revealed that 75% of those infected with a lethal dose of Pseudomonas survived if the antibiotic gentamicin was administered in the presence of bacteriophages. None survive...

Bacteria from patient's dental plaque causes ventilator-associated pneumonia

...umonia, which can be fatal. Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a major cause of infection in the hospital, and...erest in their plaque and were suspected of having pneumonia were selected for analysis. Protein and DNA profiles of pathogens in plaque and in bronchial alveol...

RNAi shows promise in gene therapy, Stanford researcher says

... way - two in macular degeneration and one in RSV pneumonia - the technique Kay pioneered may be among the first to find widespread use for treating human diseases. "We've worked on a gene therapeutic approach against viral hepatitis for about 10 years and this is the first thing we've done that really lo...

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