Sepsis

A Fast Magnetic Fix for Sepsis?

In the micromagnetic-microfluidic blood cleansing device, saline collection fluid and contaminated blood with opsonized pathogens flow together without mixing under laminar conditions. As the fluids pass the external magnetic field concentrator, opsonized pathogens and ...More
March 25, 2009
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Protein May Help Lower Infection Deaths in Dialysis

Higher levels of an antimicrobial protein regulated by vitamin D appears to significantly reduce the risk of death from infection in dialysis patients, according to a study in Clinical Infectious Diseases.The human cathelicidin antimicrobial protein, or hCAP18, is part of ...More
March 24, 2009
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Researchers Probe Mechanisms of Infection

A newly discovered receptor in a strain of Escherichia coli might help explain why people often get sicker when they’re stressed. Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center are the first to identify the receptor, known as QseE, which resides in a diarrhea-causing ...More
March 10, 2009
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Research Links Platelets to Sepsis-Related Organ Failure

Scientists at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. have identified a previously unknown contributor to organ failure in patients suffering from sepsis: platelets. The finding, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, is ...More
March 10, 2009
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Model Loses Hands and Feet to Pseudomonas Infection

FoxNews this morning issued a report that Mariana Bridi da Costa has died. For an update, CLICK HERE.An infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa necessitated the amputation of the hands and feet of a 20-year-old Brazilian model. News reports say that Mariana Bridi da ...More
January 22, 2009
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Mathematical Models of Adaptive Immunity

More than 5 million people die every year from infectious diseases, despite the availability of numerous antibiotics and vaccines. The discovery of penicillin to treat bacterial infections, along with the development of vaccines for previously incurable virus diseases such ...More
December 11, 2008
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A Novel Target for Therapeutics Against Staph Infection

Researchers at the Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences and Technology, and the University of Edinburgh have uncovered how a bacterial pathogen interacts with the blood coagulation protein fibrinogen to cause methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus ...More
December 1, 2008
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Study Demonstrates that Bacterial Clotting Depends on Clustering

Bacteria can directly cause human blood and plasma to clot—a process that was previously thought to have been lost during the course of vertebrate evolution, according to new research at the University of Chicago, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, ...More
November 3, 2008
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“Old Blood” Linked to Infection

Blood stored for 29 days or more, nearly two weeks less than the current standard for blood storage, is associated with a higher infection rate in patients who received transfusions with the blood. In a new study presented at CHEST 2008, the 74th annual international ...More
October 28, 2008
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Downplay Sepsis at Your Peril

Sepsis is something of the redheaded stepchild in infection control – many other types of infection get more attention and resources. Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line infections may garner more interest, but sepsis needs attention, too — it is ...More
August 4, 2008
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