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Wild migratory birds may indeed play a role in the spread of bird flu, also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1. A study by the U.S. Geological Survey, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the Chinese Academy of Sciences used satellites, outbreak data and genetics to uncover an unknown link . . . → Read More: First evidence of H5N1 transmission between domestic farms and wild birds The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of AIDS, makes use of the base excision repair pathway when inserting its DNA into the host-cell genome, according to a new study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute. Crippling . . . → Read More: HIV uses base excision repair pathway to insert DNA into host-cell genome Prescribing antibiotics for patients with discoloured phlegm caused by acute cough has little or no effect on alleviating symptoms and recovery, a Cardiff University study has found. Acute cough is one of the common reasons why people visit their GP and accounts for a large proportion of antibiotics prescribed in the community. One . . . → Read More: Little Benefit From Antibiotic Treatment In Patients Producing Discoloured Phlegm Malaria can complicate the course of disease in poor farmers with landmine injuries in underdeveloped countries, where both malaria and war injuries are frequent causes of illness and death. Tove Heger’s doctoral research has charted the extent and effect of malaria on war-injured people and studied the potential for preventing them contracting the disease. . . . → Read More: Study finds malaria as a serious problem for patients with landmine injuries Women who are injected with urine-derived fertility products may be at risk of developing prion disease, according to a just-released study by an international research team from Canada, France and the United States. The study, published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) ONE, for the first time documents the presence of prion . . . → Read More: Canadian Study Shows Risk Of Prion Disease From Urine-Derived, Injectable Fertility Products Investigators from Japan show in vitro that the bacterium Streptococcus salivarius, a non-biofilm forming, and otherwise harmless inhabitant of the human mouth, actually inhibits the formation of dental biofilms, otherwise known as plaque. Two enzymes this bacteria produces are responsible for this inhibition. The research is published in the March 2011 issue of the . . . → Read More: The Toothbrush, Dental Floss Effect Of Streptococcus Enzyme The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (The College) issued revised guidelines for the prevention and treatment of perinatal group B streptococcal (GBS) disease. The document summarizes the 2010 US Centers for Disease Control GBS guidelines, which The College has endorsed, and highlights important changes in clinical practice for ob-gyns. GBS-a bacteria that . . . → Read More: Revised Guidance Issued On Prevention Of GBS Infection A team of scientists from the University of Oxford, U.K. have taken lessons from Adam Smith and Charles Darwin to devise a new strategy that could one day slow, possibly even prevent, the spread of drug-resistant bacteria. In a new research report published in the March 2011 issue of GENETICS, the scientists show that . . . → Read More: Novel Ways To Control The Spread Of Antibiotic Resistance Saturday, March 19, during the 89th General Session & Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research, held in conjunction with the 40th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research and the 35th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Dental Research, a symposium titled “Novel Approaches to Bacterial Caries Management: an . . . → Read More: Symposium discusses about novel approaches to bacterial caries management Anacor Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ANAC) announced today that it has entered into a development agreement with Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) to develop Anacor’s compound AN3661 for the treatment of malaria. Under the agreement, Anacor and MMV will work together on the development of AN3661 through human proof-of-concept studies. AN3661 was developed as part of . . . → Read More: Anacor Pharmaceuticals Announces Development Agreement With Medicines For Malaria Venture For The Treatment Of Malaria Fresh insight into the way the parasite that causes malaria reproduces could lead to new treatments to help curb the spread of the disease. Scientists studying the disease have found that upsetting the parasite’s reproductive strategy could prevent infections from transmitting from person to person. Researchers at the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford examined . . . → Read More: Fresh insight into parasite’s reproductive strategy can prevent malaria spread Around 200 families have been exposed and probably infected with infectious Tuberculosis (TB) after a hospital health worker was diagnosed with the disease. At present the health care worker is off work and is receiving treatment. The hospital said there was no continuing risk to patients and staff. After the detection the Liverpool Hospital, . . . → Read More: TB risk in infants exposed to infected health worker A research article co-authored by Brenna Anderson, MD, director of Reproductive Infectious Diseases Consultation in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, was included in the recently published special issue of the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology. The publication is an outgrowth of a workshop on the human . . . → Read More: Research highlights new parameters for study of HIV A vaccine that helps against all types of influenza – for several years? If all goes right for Norwegian company Bionor Pharma ASA, such a vaccine could exist within a few years. Every year, the experts develop a new vaccine to best combat the coming annual flu wave, based on the previous year’s virus . . . → Read More: Scientists to develop new universal vaccine against various flu viruses A new study of more than three dozen bacteria species – including the microbes responsible for pneumonia, meningitis, stomach ulcers and plague – settles a longstanding debate about why bacteria are more likely to steal some genes than others. While most organisms get their genes from their parents just like people do, bacteria and . . . → Read More: Bacteria more likely to adopt ‘loner’ genes |
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