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Study: Antibiotic-resistant microbes in the gut make C. difficile more inf
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Clostridioides difficile, often referred to as C. difficile or C. diff, is a bacterium that causes severe intestinal illness and, as its name suggests, can be difficult to study and treat. Approximately 1 in 6 patients infected with C. difficile will be reinfected within two months. Yet scie
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Anupam Kher bumps into Anushka-Virat at airport; pens warm note for power
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Anupam Kher took to Instagram to share a photo with Virat and Anushka and wrote, "I was very happy to meet Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma at the airport lounge! Their warmth was beautifully infectious! Jai Ho to them!" They bumped into Anupam Kher at Mumbai airport.
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Researchers find how HIV evades immunity, drugs
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers at Duke Health have reported that an immune response that likely evolved to help fight infections appears to be the mechanism that drives human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) into a latent state, lurking in cells only to erupt anew.
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Antimicrobial therapy can prevent sepsis in pneumonia patients
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Research sheds light on the initial phase of infectious disease and the potential for prevention of pneumococcal septicaemia.
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Deaths from bacterial infections in heart on rise among people who inject
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
According to a recent investigation that was published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, among young US citizens between the ages of 15 and 44, the chance of dying from infectious endocarditis has increased by a factor of two over the past two decades.
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Research: Role of nutrient may reveal dietary target in fight against micr
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A nutrient that is common in the human diet has been found to aid the survival of a cancer-causing bacterium, a new Yale study finds. The findings could reveal an important target for new drugs to tackle numerous infectious diseases in humans.
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Study finds how innate immune system fights infectious agents
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers revealed how innate immune system fights infectious agents and why the alarm messenger type I interferon is important for this process.
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Researchers seek to understand why vaccine responses vary from person to p
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
While vaccines are one of the most powerful public health tools for protecting against infectious disease, not everybody is conferred the same level of protection. Many factors determine whether an individual responding to vaccination will generate an effective response, including specific b
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Scientists test 'smart' red blood cells to deliver antibiotics that target
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The platform, described in a new paper in the journal ACS Infectious Diseases, could help to address the ongoing antibiotic resistance crisis, say the scientists. They modified and then tested red blood cells as a carrier for one of the world's only remaining resistance-proof antibiotics: Po
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Study finds how physical traits of flowers affect health of bumble bees
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The research showed that the length of a flower's corolla, or petals, affects how this pathogen is transferred between bees because shorter corollas mean that fewer bee faeces wind up inside the flower itself and in the path of bees looking for nectar.
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Research: Monkeypox risk higher in children 8 or younger
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Children aged 8 years or younger should be considered a group at high risk for more severe monkeypox disease, reports The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, the official journal of The European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases.
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Research: Climate change is increasing frequency of fish mass die-offs
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The paper, "Climate warming amplifies the frequency of fish mass mortality events across the north temperate lakes," compiled 526 documented cases of fish die-offs that occurred across Minnesota and Wisconsin lakes between 2003 and 2013. The researchers determined there were three main drive
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