Melioidosis

Protection for stressed-out bacteria identified

...osome are found in a very wide range of bacteria. Some of these bacteria cause diseases such as listeriosis that has a 30 per cent mortality rate, and melioidosis that has a mortality rate as high as 90 per cent and is a significant health problem in northern Australia and south-east Asia. "With bacteria bec...

Melioidosis Disease Warning After Heavy Desert Rain

... The Northern Territory's Health Department Experts have warned about the killer tropical disease melioidosis after the recent flooding in central Australia.// There have been 10 cases of the disease in the heavy monsoonal rain regions of Central Australia...

Melioidosis in Biological Technology

Advanced Life Sciences Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results

... commercialization of cethromycin; * Announced U.S. Department of Defense DTRA contract to study cethromycin in tularemia, plague and melioidosis for up to $3.8 million; * Submitted funding proposal to Department of Health & Human Services to expand the application of cethromy...

Implicit Awarded US $16.3 Million U.S. Government Contract to Develop Immunomodulatory Drug for Biodefense Threats

...nt of a number of intracellularbacterial diseases. Among these diseases is melioidosis which is the most common cause of death from bacterial pneumonia in Austral...ientists recently investigated the ability of oglufanide to protect against melioidosis in an animal model. "With two clinical trials using oglufanide in hepatiti...