Researchers reveal the infectious impact of salmon farms on wild salmon
A new study published in the March 30th edition of the prestigious scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B (a publication of the UK's national academy of science) shows that the transfer of parasitic sea lice from salmon farms to wild salmon populations is much larger and more extensive than previously believed. This quantitative analysis of parasite transfer is a scientific...A bacterial genome reveals new targets to combat infectious disease
More than a billion people are at risk for infection with filarial nematodes, parasites that cause elephantiasis, African river blindness, and other debilitating diseases in more than 150 million people worldwide. The nematodes themselves play host to bacteria that live within their cells, but in this case, the relationship is classic mutualism, with each benefiting from the other. Indeed, the Wo...Development of portable infectious disease detector
A portable device similar to today's homepregnancy tests that can quickly detect the presence of infectiousdiseases, including HIV-AIDS and measles, as well as biological agentssuch as ricin and anthrax, is the object of a new jointuniversity/industry research project.Vanderbilt University's Institute for Integrative Biosystems Researchand Education (VIIBRE) and Pria Diagnostics LLC, a priv...Major breakthrough in the treatment of cancers and infectious diseases
Montreal researchers identify new anti-cancer, anti-infection response control mechanism Dr. André Veillette, a researcher at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), and his team will publish in the upcoming issue of the prestigious journal Nature Immunology of Nature Publishing Group, a discovery that could significantly advance the treatment of cancers and infectious di...Hide and seek: Researchers discover a new way for infectious bacteria to enter cells
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Based on findings of a recent study researchers say people aren’t the only organisms traveling around the world but also is infectious diseases // . Previous studies conducted among air travelers, including those involving the spread of tuberculosis on planes. Results suggest sitting within two rows of a contagious individual during a flight lasting longer than eight hours places passeng...Sex Played A Vital Role For Evolution Of Infectious Diseases
Same-sex mating between two less harmful yeast strains might have spawned an outbreak of disease among otherwise healthy people and animals on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Howard Hughes Medical Institute geneticists at Duke University Medical Center have reported//. The fungus, Cryptococcus gattii, is normally restricted to the tropics and subtropics. The evidence that sex played...Systemic Corticosteroid Therapy can be used for treating all types of Infectious Mononucleosis
Scott Thompson and colleagues from University of Rochester Medical Center, has found from review of records of patients treated with corticosteroids that Corticosteroids is the most effective and useful treatment// option for Infectious mononucleosis, including severe airway compromise mononucleosis. The results of the study have been published in Achieves of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surger...Infectious Diseases of the Wild to grow
Infectious diseases involving animals, such as SARS, Avian flu and AIDS are likely to grow as people travel more and have increased contact with wild life, says a scientist.//Of the pathogens causing infectious diseases, 75 percent are zoonotic that are able to transmit from animals to humans, writes Andrew Cunningham of the Institute of Zoology at the Zoological Society of London in an article...Infectious Diseases Reduced in China
Chinese ministry of health reports that infectious diseases in China has comparable reduced over the years due to intense prevention and eradication// programs organized by the Chinese government but, feels that though disease control has reduced in the urban population still there is a threat for infectious diseases in rural population due to inaccessible to treatment and malnutrition. China has...QuickVue+ Infectious Mononucleosis test
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