News tagged with streptococcal bacteria

Physician urges changes in diagnosis for sore throat in young adults

New analysis from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) suggests that physicians need to re-think their diagnosis and treatment of sore throat, or pharyngitis, in adolescents and young adults to consider a more newly ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Tracing microbes between individuals towards personalized oral health care

The human body is home to a complex ecosystem of microbes increasingly recognized as having a critical role in both health and disease. Viruses can attack and change the composition of bacterial communities, yet little is ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sinus infections may be a factor in toxic shock syndrome in children

Rhinosinusitis (infection and inflammation in the sinus passages surrounding the nose) appears to be a primary factor in about one-fifth of toxic shock syndrome cases in children, according to a report in the June issue of ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Engineered protein shows potential as a strep vaccine

A University of California, San Diego-led research team has demonstrated that immunization with a stabilized version of a protein found on Streptococcus bacteria can provide protection against Strep infections, which afflict ...

Biology /

created Mar 06, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists decode genome of oral pathogen

Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have decoded the genome of a bacteria normally present in the healthy human mouth that can cause a deadly heart infection if it enters the bloodstream.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 05, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists develop fast-working biosensor

University of Rochester Medical Center scientists have demonstrated a new technology that accurately and rapidly detects the meat-spoiling and sometimes dangerous E. coli bacteria. The unique technology uses a protein from t ...

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created Feb 23, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0


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