infectious diseases

Smaller mosquitoes are likey to be infected with viruses

harminka — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:53:47 -0600

An entomologist at the Illinois Natural History Survey, a division of the new UI Institute for Natural Resource Sustainability, says smaller mosquitoes are more likely to be infected with viruses that cause diseases in humans.

Efficacy of iclaprim in patients with complicated skin infections

harminka — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:11:36 -0500

Arpida (SWX: ARPN) today presented the combined results from two pivotal Phase III clinical trials at the 48th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC)/Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) 46th annual meeting in Washington, DC.

Rapid detection of single biological molecules

harminka — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:58:48 -0500

Even very small numbers of deadly infectious agents or allergenic pollen molecules can cause big problems for humans.

RNA molecules, delivery system improve vaccine responses

harminka — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:50:56 -0500

A novel delivery system that could lead to more efficient and more disease-specific vaccines against infectious diseases has been developed by biomedical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin.

Hidden infections crucial to understanding, controlling disease outbreaks

harminka — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:38:25 -0500

Scientists and news organizations typically focus on the number of dead and gravely ill during epidemics, but research at the University of Michigan suggests that less dramatic, mild infections lurking in large numbers of people are the key to understanding cycles of at least one potentially fatal infectious disease: cholera.

Climatic conditions can alter normal host-pathogen relationships

harminka — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:18:41 -0500

Extreme weather events can unleash a 'perfect storm' of infectious diseases, research study says

How Montezuma gets his revenge

harminka — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:26:48 -0500

Every year, about 500 million people worldwide are infected with the parasite that causes dysentery, a global medical burden that among infectious diseases is second only to malaria. In a new study appearing in the June 15 issue of Genes and Development, Johns Hopkins researchers may have found a way to ease this burden by discovering a new enzyme that may help the dysentery-causing amoeba evade the immune system.

Quick responses to influenza outbreaks reduces illness and death

harminka — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:16:47 -0500

Influenza outbreaks were shorter and resulted in fewer cases and fewer deaths at long-term care facilities that started residents on preventive antiviral medications within five days of the first case, compared to those that started later, according to a new study in the July 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, currently available online.

Weather, stomach bugs and climate change

harminka — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:44:37 -0500

Monitoring extreme weather, such as periods of high temperature, is one way to predict the timing and intensity of infectious diseases like cryptosporidiosis, an intestinal disease that causes upset stomach and diarrhea.

Scientists discover how common vaccine booster works

harminka — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:35:53 -0500

In an online paper in the journal Nature, Yale University researchers funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, explain how a common ingredient in many vaccines stimulates and interacts with the immune system to help provide protection against infectious diseases.

New Way Of Looking At Infectious Disease

harminka — Sat, 03 May 2008 06:16:18 -0500

Scientists in Italy have discovered a new perspective in the study of infectious disease. Normally, such studies are based upon laboratory work looking at an organism and how it works within the human body.

Research debunks myth that migrants spread disease

seher — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:20:25 -0500

If you read the papers, you probably have the wrong idea about how you are most likely to catch a disease like tuberculosis (TB).