News tagged with immunocompromised

Aggressive infection control protects cancer patients from acquiring H1N1 influenza

Despite a 100-fold increase in H1N1 influenza cases in the Seattle area during spring 2009, an aggressive infection control program to protect immunocompromised cancer patients and thorough screening measures resulted in ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Urine LAM-ELISA poor at diagnosing TB

Urine LAM-ELISA does not appear to be useful as an independent diagnostic test for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). A trial of the new diagnostic, described in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases found that it was ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Biology researchers demystify elusive war zone bacterium

Tao Weitao, a researcher in the College of Sciences' Department of Biology at the University of Texas at San Antonio is making great strides in a project that was funded one year ago by the San Antonio Area Foundation. The ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Substance use common among patients with TB, associated with treatment difficulties

About one in five U.S. tuberculosis patients reports abusing alcohol or using illicit drugs, and those who do appear more contagious and difficult to treat, according to a report in the January 26 issue of Archives of In ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0