Infection Control Today - Infectious Diseases

Experts Share Latest Findings About Relationship Between Microbes and Human Immune System

As evidence that a newly emerging and perhaps more virulent strain of “bird flu” is spreading in China, a multi-disciplinary group of researchers from around the world are gathering at the Ohio State University Center for Microbial Interface Biology (CMIB) to discuss ...More

April 19, 2013

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IDSA Says President's FY 2014 Budget Supports Some ID Priorities, Shortchanges Others

The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) says it supports numerous initiatives in the President’s budget proposal for the 2014 fiscal year (FY) that would enhance our nation’s ability to track and respond to serious public health threats such as antimicrobial ...More

April 11, 2013

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Scissor-Like Enzyme Points Toward Treatment of Infectious Disease

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report that a pathogen annually blamed for an estimated 90 million cases of foodborne illness defeats a host's immune response by using a fat-snipping enzyme to cut off cellular communication. "Our findings provide insight into ...More

April 4, 2013

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Valley Fever Increasing in Some Southwestern States

Valley Fever, a fungal respiratory infection, dramatically increased in several southwestern states from 1998 through 2011, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cases in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah rose from 2,265 ...More

March 28, 2013

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Scripps Research Institute Scientists Reveal New Test for River Blindness Infection

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found a telltale molecular marker for Onchocerciasis or "river blindness," a parasitic infection that affects tens of millions of people in Africa, Latin America and other tropical regions. The newly discovered ...More

February 28, 2013

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Humans and Chimps Share Genetic Strategy in Battle Against Pathogens

A genome-wide analysis searching for evidence of long-lived balancing selection—where the evolutionary process acts not to select the single best adaptation but to maintain genetic variation in a population—has uncovered at least six regions of the genome where humans and ...More

February 14, 2013

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Surveillance System Targets Emerging Infectious Disease Hotspots

A team of researchers have developed a method to identify the cause of infectious disease outbreaks based on online reports about the symptoms, the season, and the ratio of cases to fatalities. Using data from the Internet outbreak reporting system ProMED-mail, the ...More

February 8, 2013

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MIT Research Brings a New Perspective to Infectious Diseases

Studying infectious diseases has long been primarily the domain of biologists. However, as part of the Ragon Institute, MIT engineers and physical scientists are joining immunologists and physicians in the battle against HIV, which currently infects 34 million people ...More

February 7, 2013

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Literary 'Misdiagnosis' of Scarlet Fever for Little House Character

In the beloved American stories of the Little House on the Prairie, author Laura Ingalls Wilder writes emotionally about how scarlet fever robs her big sister Mary of her sight. But in a new study published today in the journal Pediatrics, University of Michigan researchers ...More

February 4, 2013

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Study Identifies Significance of Co-Infection in Disease Control

A new study, "The relative contribution of co-infections to focal infection risk in children," published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, analyzes data from school-aged children in Tanzania infected with the most common forms of worms. It was found that infection ...More

January 9, 2013

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