News tagged with opportunistic infections

US releases updated clinical guidelines for HIV-associated opportunistic infections

The first complete update in five years of the U.S. guidelines for preventing and treating HIV-associated opportunistic infections has been released by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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Fighting bacteria's strength in numbers

Scientists at The University of Nottingham have opened the way for more accurate research into new ways to fight dangerous bacterial infections by proving a long-held theory about how bacteria communicate ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fasting for Lent forces hyenas to change diet

Many Christians give up certain foods for Lent, however ecologists have discovered these changes in human diet have a dramatic impact on the diet of wild animals. In Ethiopia, members of the Orthodox Tewahedo Church stop ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Antibiotic resistant bacteria proliferate in agricultural soils

Infectious diseases kill roughly 13 million people worldwide, annually, a toll that continues to rise, aided and abetted by resistance genes. Now a study, published in the March Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy finds ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nano rescues skin: Shrimp shell nanotech for wound healing and anti-aging face cream

Nanoparticles containing chitosan have been shown to have effective antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus saprophyticus and Escherichia coli. The materials could be used as a protective wound-healing material to a ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists discover how a bacterial pathogen breaks down barriers to enter and infect cells

Scientists from the Schepens Eye Research Institute, a subsidiary of Mass. Eye and Ear and affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have found for the first time that a bacterial pathogen can literally mow down protective molecules, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research discovers potentially deadly fungus senses body's defenses to evade them

Glen Palmer, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Immunology & Parasitology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, was part of an international research team led by Luigina Romani, MD, at the University of Perugia, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Disease-causing strains of Fusarium prevalent in plumbing drains

A study examining the prevalence of the fungus Fusarium in bathroom sink drains suggests that plumbing systems may be a common source of human infections.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Study shows how parasites manipulate plants to attract insects

Pathogens can alter their hosts, for example malaria parasites can make humans more attractive to mosquitoes, but how they do it has remained a mystery. Scientists from the John Innes Centre on Norwich Research ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Enzymes act like a switch, turning antibiotic resistance on and off in enterococci

Antibiotic-resistant enterococci are a serious problem for patients in the hospital, but little is known about how these bacteria are able to escape antibiotics. New discoveries about the ways in which enterococci turn their ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Raw sewage: Home to millions of undescribed viruses

Biologists have described only a few thousand different viruses so far, but a new study reveals a vast world of unseen viral diversity that exists right under our noses. A paper to be published Tuesday, October 4 in the online ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3


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