News tagged with blood poisoning
Researchers make blood poisoning breakthrough
(PhysOrg.com) -- The lives of millions of people struck down by blood poisoning - or sepsis - could be saved after a team of researchers, including an expert from the University of Glasgow, made a medical breakthrough in ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 04, 2010 |
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Genetic changes tracked as bacteria become a fatal infection
(Medical Xpress) -- An unusual case could tell researchers more about the genetic changes that occur when a common bacteria, normally carried without any problems, on rare occasions causes potentially life-threatening ...
Mar 06, 2012 |
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Researchers probe mechanisms of infection
A newly discovered receptor in a strain of Escherichia coli might help explain why people often get sicker when they're stressed.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Resistance to antibiotics can be drawback for bacteria
Neisseria meningitidis, the meningococcus, is a bacterium that can cause diseases with high fatality rates, and there has therefore been considerable concern that, like other bacteria, it might become resistant to antibiotics. ...
Jan 07, 2010 |
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Researchers identify what makes MRSA lethal
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying the so-called "superbug" MRSA have identified one of the components responsible for making it so deadly.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 01, 2010 |
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Australia's inner cities still contaminated with lead
A research article published this week in the international journal Environmental Pollution contends that large tracts of land in the older inner-city suburbs of Australia’s cities remain contaminated with above-acceptable levels ...
Sep 28, 2010 |
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