News tagged with group b streptococcus
Third trimester group B streptococcus test doesn't accurately predict presence during labor
In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in San Francisco, researchers will present findings that show that many women are having different ...
Feb 11, 2011 |
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Leading pathogen in newborns can suppress immune cell function
Group B Streptococcus (GBS), a bacterial pathogen that causes sepsis and meningitis in newborn infants, is able to shut down immune cell function in order to promote its own survival, according to researchers ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Strep infections responsible for groper deaths
Researchers are in a race against time to save Queensland's protected groper fish, which are washing up dead along the beaches of Northern Queensland in increasing numbers.
Jul 20, 2011 |
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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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Vancomycin is the drug of choice for treating cellulitis
Patients admitted to the hospital for the common bacterial skin infection cellulitis should be treated as a first line of defense with the potent antibiotic drug vancomycin rather than other antibiotics such as penicillin, ...
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Oct 23, 2010 |
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Bacteriolytic therapy may be a promising treatment strategy for advanced pancreatic cancer patients
Pancreatic carcinoma is only rarely curable. A German research group investigated an alternative treatment using spores of the bacterium Clostridium novyi in an animal model. Tumors of a defined medium size were successfully ...
Aug 02, 2010 |
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Strep steps up in urinary tract infections
Research suggests pathogenic strains of Group B Streptococcus (GBS) are an under-recognised cause of urinary tract infections.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 23, 2010 |
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Researcher links potentially deadly infection, frequent cow exposure
A common bacteria found in many healthy adult females that can cause life-threatening infections when passed to newborns could be introduced to some women through frequent contact with cows, according to a research team led ...
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Feb 18, 2010 |
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Progress made on group B streptococcus vaccine
Scientists supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have completed a Phase II clinical study that indicates a vaccine to prevent Group B Streptococcus ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 30, 2009 |
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How meningitis bacteria attack the brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- A specific protein on the surface of a common bacterial pathogen allows the bacteria to leave the bloodstream and enter the brain, initiating the deadly infection known as meningitis. The new finding, which ...
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Aug 18, 2009 |
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Pre-chewed food could transmit HIV
Researchers have uncovered the first cases in which HIV almost certainly was transmitted from mothers or other caregivers to children through pre-chewed food. The source of HIV in the pre-chewed food was most likely the infected ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Scientists identify blood component that turns bacteria virulent
Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute have discovered the key chemical that signals Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax, to become lethal. This finding opens up new avenues of exploration for th ...
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Nov 21, 2008 |
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