UA immunobiologist will use $1.9 million grant to explore copper’s potential as antibiotic
Pneumonia starts like this: A bacterial cell called Streptococcus pneumoniae enters the nostril. It travels down the nasal passage and ...
Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases
Pain, pain go away: new tools improve students’ experience of school-based vaccines
Student-centered support tools reduce vaccine-associated pain, fear, and fainting during school-based clinicsLearn about how to reduce pain, fear and dizziness ...
New model predicts substantial reduction of malaria transmitting mosquitoes
The role of mosquitoes in spreading malaria is the biggest factor behind a recent study that found them to be ...
Bacteria partners with virus to cause chronic wounds, Stanford study finds
A common bacterial pathogen called Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces a virus that substantially increases the pathogen's ability to infect us, according ...
Modelled climate change impact on mosquito-borne virus transmission
Credit: NIAID (CC BY 2.0, 2016) Mosquito-borne viruses, such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika, already threaten over a billion people ...
New Yorkers brace for self-cloning Asian longhorned tick
Columbia researchers warn that NYC's Asian longhorned tick population is larger than previously knownCredit: Center for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Novel brain map tracks early brain atrophy from HIV infection
Credit: Xiong Jiang/Georgetown WASHINGTON -- A new map of brain tissue in people with HIV shows atrophy in several areas ...
Dissecting dengue: Innovative model sheds light on confounding immune response
About 40 percent of the global population is at risk for contracting dengue - the most important mosquito-borne viral infection ...
1 billion people will be newly exposed to diseases like dengue fever as world temperatures rise
WASHINGTON -- As many as a billion people could be newly exposed to disease-carrying mosquitoes by the end of the ...
A bad bout of flu triggers ‘taste bud cells’ to grow in the lungs
The discovery of these seemingly out-of-place sensing cells may lend insight into possibilities for protecting lung function in people who ...
Copycat fungus deceives immune system and deactivates body’s response to infection
Fungal infection is life-threatening to people with weakened immune systems, such as those with blood cancers, HIV infection or following ...
How mosquitoes smell human sweat (and new ways to stop them)
Credit: Alex Wild Female mosquitoes are known to rely on an array of sensory information to find people to bite, ...
Promising new drugs for old pathogen Mtb
Tuberculosis (TB), an ancient and notoriously difficult disease to treat, has killed millions through the course of human history; and ...
WHO guidelines fail to detect half of chronic hepatitis B patients in Ethiopia needing treatment
Scientists propose revising the guidelines to take data from sub-Saharan Africa into account, reports the Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, March ...
The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Low levels of public trust during violent conflict may have thwarted attempts to control Ebola
A quarter of people surveyed during active 2018 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo believed the virus was ...
Dramatic housing transformation in sub-Saharan Africa revealed for first time
Improved housing estimated to have doubled between 2000 and 2015 but nearly 50 percent of the urban population still living ...
Sepsis study to focus on genes in quest for treatments
Scientists say the study could help identify those most vulnerable to sepsis, which kills more than 50,000 people in the ...
Retinal prion disease study redefines role for brain cells
Microglia may benefit, not damage, photoreceptorsCredit: James. F. Striebel/NIAID WHAT: National Institutes of Health scientists studying the progression of inherited ...
Study: AIDS-immunocompromised populations see more antibiotic-resistant infections
Populations with a high prevalence of AIDS-immunocompromised people are more likely to see the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, according ...
Microgels let medical implants fight off bacteria
Implants coated in microgel flecks could be key to reducing surgical infections Joint replacements are among the most common elective ...