Bacterial Infections

  • Overcoming Anthrax Bacterium's Natural Defenses Could Hold Key to New Treatments
    Army scientists have discovered a way to "trick" the bacterium that causes anthrax into shedding its protective covering, making it easier for the body's immune system to mount a defense. The study, which appears in this month's issue of the journal Microbiology, could lead ...More
    May 18, 2010
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  • Surprising Infection-Inducing Mechanism Found in Bacteria
    Research appearing in Nature, with the participation of doctors Susana Campoy and Jordi Barbé from the Department of Genetics and Microbiology at UAB, demonstrates that bacteria have a surprising mechanism to transfer virulent genes, causing infections. The research ...More
    May 18, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Phylogenetic Tree Established for Large Bacteria Group
    A new "tree of life" has been constructed by researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech for the gamma-proteobacteria, a large group of medically and scientifically important bacteria that includes Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, ...More
    May 17, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Putting Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance into Reverse
    The use of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections causes a continual and vicious cycle in which antibiotic treatment leads to the emergence and spread of resistant strains, forcing the use of additional drugs leading to further multi-drug resistance.But what if it ...More
    April 26, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Strep Steps Up in Urinary Tract Infections
    Research suggests pathogenic strains of Group B Streptococcus (GBS) are an under-recognized cause of urinary tract infections. The bacteria are better known as a cause of infection in pregnant women with subsequent risks of preterm delivery and transmission to newborn ...More
    April 23, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Vaccine Has Led to Changes in Pneumococcal Infections
    In the decade since the introduction of pneumococcal vaccination, significant shifts have occurred in the bacterial strains causing serious pneumococcal infections in children, according to a pair of studies in the April issue of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. ...More
    April 12, 2010
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  • Researchers Identify Mechanism that Triggers Vancomycin Resistance
    A new study led by the scientific director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research has uncovered for the first time how bacteria recognize and develop resistance to a powerful antibiotic used to treat superbug infections.Gerry Wright, a ...More
    April 12, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Report of Acupuncture-Related Infections Stirs Professional Group to Refute Information
    MedicalNewsToday.com is reporting that a recent editorial in the British Medical Journal regarding statements from University of Hong Kong microbiologists about acupuncture-related infections has triggered the ire of the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and ...More
    April 7, 2010
    Posted in News
  • 'Hormone Therapy' for Food Poisoning Bacteria
    Pathogenic bacteria in the gut recognize their surroundings by detecting hormone signals from the host, which can prompt them to express lethal toxins. Intercepting these hormonal messages could be a better way to treat serious foodborne infections where antibiotics do more ...More
    March 29, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Optimism Boosts the Immune System
    Feeling better about the future might help you feel better for real. In a new study, psychological scientists Suzanne Segerstrom of the University of Kentucky and Sandra Sephton of the University of Louisville studied how law students' expectations about the future affected ...More
    March 23, 2010
    Posted in News
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