News tagged with brain infection
Scientists advance understanding of food pathogen
Listeria is an opportunistic pathogen that causes brain infection, blood poisoning, abortion and death for about 500 Americans and a number of farm animals each year. But while its harmful strains can be more lethal than ...
Jan 12, 2011 |
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From wimp to jock: How a cell motor gets pushy
A University of Utah researcher helped discover how a "wimpy" protein motor works with two other proteins to gain the strength necessary to move nerve cells and components inside them. The findings shed light ...
Apr 15, 2010 |
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HIV infection prematurely ages the brain
HIV infection or the treatments used to control it are prematurely aging the brain, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of California-San Diego have found.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 22, 2010 |
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Infant hydrocephalus, seasonal and linked to farm animals in Uganda
Hydrocephalus in Ugandan children and other developing countries is seasonal, linked to farm animals and in part, caused by previous bacterial infection, according to an international team of researchers from ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 03, 2011 |
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Scientists investigate evolution of new polio virus
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have completed the first major review of diagnostic methods and treatments for a rapidly evolving virus that causes hand, foot and mouth disease in children.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Prenatal treatment of congenital toxoplasmosis could reduce the risk of brain damage
Prenatal treatment of congenital toxoplasmosis with antibiotics might substantially reduce the proportion of infected fetuses that develop serious neurological sequelae (brain damage, epilepsy, deafness, blindness, or developmental ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 12, 2010 |
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Monocyte turnover predicts speed and severity of AIDS and onset of brain disease
An increase in the release of monocytes from bone marrow into the bloodstream predicts how rapidly AIDS develops in monkeys and the magnitude of monocyte turnover correlates with the severity of brain disease ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 15, 2010 |
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Expectant mom's flu exposure stunts baby's brain development
(PhysOrg.com) -- For expectant mothers, catching even a mild case of the flu could stunt brain development in their newborns, according to a new study conducted in rhesus macaques.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 25, 2010 |
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Singapore nanotechnology combats fatal brain infections
Doctors may get a new arsenal for meningitis treatment and the war on drug-resistant bacteria and fungal infections with novel peptide nanoparticles developed by scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 28, 2009 |
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Popular cancer drug linked to often fatal brain virus
The 57-year-old lawyer in New York had handily completed the New York Times' Saturday crossword puzzle - the hardest of the week - for years. But one Saturday morning, suddenly he couldn't retrieve the words to fill in the ...
May 18, 2009 |
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Brain structure assists in immune response (Video)
For the first time, a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have imaged in real time the body's immune response to a parasitic infection in the brain.
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Jan 28, 2009 |
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Antibodies to strep throat bacteria linked to obsessive compulsive disorder in mice
A new study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health's Center for Infection and Immunity indicates that pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Tourette syndrome and/or tic disorder may ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 11, 2009 |
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