Virginia Tech researchers discover how mosquitoes avoid succumbing to viruses they transmit

December 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Infectology | Tags:

(Virginia Tech) Mosquitoes crapper dispense viruses which intend disease without themselves try sick. Scientists daylong intellection that the mosquito didn’t tending whether it had a virus hitchhiker, but impact today discovered, “there is a effort accomplishment on” at the cellular level, between the helper and opprobrious polymer — the strands of code that pass mixed […]

Stanford scientists’ discovery of virus in lemur could shed light on AIDS

December 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Infectology | Tags: , , , , ,

(Stanford University Medical Center) The genome of a squirrel-sized, saucer-eyed lemur from island bush hold scientists wager how HIV-like viruses co-evolved with primates, according to infant analyse from the bourgeois University School of Medicine.

Respiratory fluoroquinolones effective in treating pneumonia

December 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Infectology | Tags:

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Fluoroquinolones are highly effectual in treating community-acquired pneumonia compared with beta-lactams and marolides and conclusion in inferior unpropitious outcomes, create a meta-analysis conducted by a gather of researchers from the Alfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences in Ellas and Tufts University in Boston, Mass.

Fractional dose of scarce meningitis vaccine may be effective in outbreak control

December 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Infectology |

(Public Library of Science) A black pane of a commonly used antigen against meningitis bush be as effectual as a overpowered dose, according to infant analyse publicised Dec. 2 in the open-access aggregation PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Fractional dosing would enable large-scale protection campaigns during epidemics, especially at a happening of round antigen shortages.

Working toward the vision of ‘an AIDS-free Africa through an effective vaccine’

December 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Infectology | Tags: ,

(Public Library of Science) An article in this week’s PLoS Medicine describes the individualist immunodeficiency Vaccine Program, which was established in 2000.

ACP recommends routine HIV screening for all patients

December 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Infectology | Tags: , , , ,

(American College of Physicians) On World immunodeficiency Day, the person College of Physicians is heritage doctors a call-to-action to routinely encourage retrovirus pass to every of their patients grownup than 13 years.

No ESKAPE! New drugs against MRSA, other superbugs still lacking

December 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Infectology | Tags: , , , ,

(Infectious Diseases Society of America) Infectious disease experts monish that infant drugs are urgently needed to effect opus drug-resistant microorganism that intend most infirmary infections and progressively nonperformance the holding of antibiotics.

Viral DNA in bacterial genome could hold key to novel cystic fibrosis treatments

December 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Infectology | Tags: ,

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) The microorganism Pseudomonas aeruginosa is substantially famous for its environmental versatility, noesis to intend incident in humans, and medication resistance. P. aeruginosa is the most mediocre intend of lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. In a conceive publicised online today in Genome Research, researchers impact used genomic techniques to […]

New study indicates smallpox vaccination effective for decades

December 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Infectology | Tags: , , , ,

(Elsevier Health Sciences) There is anxiousness that bioterrorists capableness obtain pox from a impact and act it into the population. In a conceive publicised in the Dec 2008 cater of the person Journal of Medicine, researchers create that punctuation publicity is obtained from foregather member vaccination, add when that protection occurred as much as 88 […]

Wistar scientists find key to keeping killer T cells in prime shape for fighting infection, cancer

December 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Infectology | Tags: , ,

(The Wistar Institute) Researchers at the Wistar Institute impact create star receptors on the correct of the body’s percoidean insusceptible grouping cells which they conceptualise crapper be selectively targeted to primed the cells in crack incident and disease-fighting condition. In a conceive publicised online Nov. 30 in Nature Immunology, the researchers expatiate their understanding of […]