Chronic Infections

  • Strengthening Fragile Immune Memories to Fight Chronic Infections
    After recovering from the flu or another acute infection, your immune system is ready to react quickly if you run into the same virus again. White blood cells called memory T cells develop during the infection and help the immune system remember the virus and attack it if ...More
    August 18, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • Research Shows How Pathogenic Bacteria Hide Inside Host Cells
    A new study into Staphylococcus aureus, the bacterium which is responsible for severe chronic infections worldwide, reveals how bacteria have developed a strategy of hiding within host cells to escape the immune system as well as many antibacterial treatments. The research, ...More
    January 26, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Bacteria Eyed for Possible Role in Atherosclerosis
    Dr. Emil Kozarov and a team of researchers at the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine have identified specific bacteria that may have a key role in vascular pathogenesis, specifically atherosclerosis, or what is commonly referred to as "hardening of the arteries" ...More
    January 5, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Viral Evasion Gene Reveals New Targets for Eliminating Chronic Infections
    Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have discovered how a key viral gene helps viruses evade early detection by the immune system. Their finding is providing new insights into how viruses are able to establish chronic infections, leading scientists to reevaluate ...More
    January 5, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Discovery Shows Rapid Evolution of Bacterial Genomes Over the Course of a Single Chronic Infection
    Researchers from the Center for Genomic Sciences at Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) in Pittsburgh have made a landmark discovery about the evolutionary nature of bacteria in the setting of chronic infectious disease. Reporting today in the journal PLos Pathogens, the AGH ...More
    September 17, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Immune System Overreaction May Enable Recurrent UTIs
    The immune system may open the door to recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) by overdoing its response to an initial infection, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found. ...More
    August 13, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Disease Caused by Insect Bites Can be Transmitted to Children at Birth
    A North Carolina State University researcher has discovered that bacteria transmitted by fleas–and potentially ticks–can be passed to human babies by the mother, causing chronic infections and raising the possibility of bacterially induced birth defects.Dr. Ed ...More
    May 3, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Hepatitis B and C Infection Remains a Serious Public Health Issue
    A recent report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) confirmed that 3.5 to 5.3 million people (1 percent to 2 percent of the U.S. population) have chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections. Despite efforts by federal, state and local government ...More
    February 24, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Further Doubt Cast on Virus Link to Chronic Fatigue
    Researchers investigating UK samples have found no association between the controversial xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus (XMRV) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Their study, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Retrovirology, calls into ...More
    February 16, 2010
    Posted in News
  • New Screening System for Hepatitis C
    A newly designed system of identifying molecules for treating hepatitis C should enable scientists to discover novel and effective therapies for the dangerous and difficult-to-cure disease of the liver, says Zhilei Chen, a Texas A&M University assistant professor of ...More
    February 11, 2010
    Posted in News
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