Training surgeons like dogs, icky money win 2019 Ig Nobels
Training surgeons is as easy as training dolphins or dogs.
Other
Sep 13, 2019
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News tagged with infectious diseases
The 'pathobiome'—a new understanding of disease
Cefas and University of Exeter scientists have presented a novel concept describing the complex microbial interactions that lead to disease in plants, animals and humans.
Ecology
Sep 12, 2019
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Florida panthers, bobcats stricken by mystery nerve disorder
US authorities are investigating a mysterious neurological disorder affecting bobcats and Florida panthers that prevents them from walking normally.
Ecology
Aug 21, 2019
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An ambitious plan to stop the rise of superbugs
Antibiotic resistance is here to stay, but that doesn't mean we can't do anything to stop it.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 05, 2019
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Researchers report bio-inspired selective antibiotics
With multi-resistant germs becoming more and more of a threat, we are in need of new antibiotics now more than ever. Unfortunately, antibiotics cannot distinguish between pathogens and beneficial microbes. They can destroy ...
Biochemistry
Jul 30, 2019
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Bacteria-killing gel heals itself while healing you
McMaster researchers have developed a novel new gel made entirely from bacteria-killing viruses.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 25, 2019
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Can we feed 11 billion people while preventing the spread of infectious disease?
Within the next 80 years, the world's population is expected to top 11 billion, creating a rise in global food demand—and presenting an unavoidable challenge to food production and distribution.
Environment
Jul 02, 2019
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How an emerging tick-borne pathogen evades detection
Human babesiosis is an emerging infectious disease transmitted to humans by ticks. A team of Yale researchers has discovered how Babesia microti, one of the two Babesia parasite species that transmit the disease in the United ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 20, 2019
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Çatalhöyük: 9,000 years ago, a community with modern urban problems
Some 9,000 years ago, residents of one of the world's first large farming communities were also among the first humans to experience some of the perils of modern urban living.
Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 17, 2019
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Framework predicts endangered species' pathogen risk
Four years ago, more than 200,000 endangered saiga antelope dropped dead on the remote steppe grassland of Central Asia in the species' worst recorded mass mortality event.
Ecology
Jun 12, 2019
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Infectious disease
An infectious disease is a clinically evident disease resulting from the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including pathogenic viruses, pathogenic bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions. These pathogens are able to cause disease in animals and/or plants. Infectious pathologies are usually qualified as contagious diseases (also called communicable diseases) due to their potential of transmission from one person or species to another. Transmission of an infectious disease may occur through one or more of diverse pathways including physical contact with infected individuals. These infecting agents may also be transmitted through liquids, food, body fluids, contaminated objects, airborne inhalation, or through vector-borne spread.
The term infectivity describes the ability of an organism to enter, survive and multiply in the host, while the infectiousness of a disease indicates the comparative ease with which the disease is transmitted to other hosts. An infection however, is not synonymous with an infectious disease, as an infection may not cause important clinical symptoms or impair host function.
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