Infection Control Today - Pathogenic Organisms

How Legionella Protects Itself from Immune Cells

When it infects the lungs, the Legionnaire’s bacterium Legionella pneumophila causes acute pneumonia. The pathogen’s modus operandi is particularly ingenious: it infiltrates deliberately into cells of the human immune system and injects a host of proteins which then ...More

July 23, 2010

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Studying Plant Microbes Has Implications for Fighting Human Diseases

Understanding microbes' mechanisms of infection could help scientists develop new strategies for combating the most damaging diseases of the world's major food crops as well as several human diseases. ...More

July 22, 2010

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Wet Breathing System Filters Transmit Microbes

Researchers have highlighted potential problems with the breathing system filters used in anesthesia, including intensive care units, after demonstrating that they don't provide protection from harmful bacteria and yeast when they become wet. ...More

July 7, 2010

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Study Examines, Compares Bacteria in the Nose and Throat

Scientists have completed the most comprehensive comparative analysis to date of bacterial communities inhabiting the human nose and throat, which could provide new insights into why some individuals become colonized with pathogens while others do not. They release their ...More

June 21, 2010

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Novel Therapeutic Approach Shows Promise Against Multiple Bacterial Pathogens

A team of scientists from government, academia and private industry has developed a novel treatment that protects mice from infection with the bacterium that causes tularemia, a highly infectious disease of rodents, sometimes transmitted to people, and also known as rabbit ...More

June 2, 2010

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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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Merely Seeing Disease Symptoms May Promote Aggressive Immune Response

Just seeing someone who looks sick is enough to make your immune system work harder, according to a new study in which volunteers looked at pictures of sick people. This may help fight off pathogens, says Mark Schaller from the University of British Columbia who conducted ...More

April 27, 2010

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New Model Tracks the Immune Response to a T

Using T cells primed for the infectious disease toxoplasmosis, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research researchers have created novel mouse models of the immune system that more accurately reflect how immune cells actually respond to pathogens in their ...More

April 8, 2010

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'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

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Mercy Health Partners Unveils Innovative Lab Coats that Help Fight Pathogens

Vestagen Technical Textiles today announced that Mercy Medical Center St. Mary's, Mercy Medical Center North, and Mercy Medical Center West in Knoxville, Tenn., purchased Vestex™ nanotechnology-based lab coats. The lab coats were presented to staff physicians in honor ...More

March 25, 2010

Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions

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