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Research highlights the importance of seeking prompt medical advice following rabies exposure

There is only a short window of opportunity to seek medical help before rabies becomes almost invariably fatal, but people wait an average of 10 days before seeking medical advice following exposure to potentially rabid animals overseas, according to new research being presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in Amsterdam, Netherlands (13-16 April).

15 Apr 2019

Low hand hygiene compliance found among healthcare workers on ICUs

Healthcare workers on intensive care units are regularly missing opportunities to clean their hands during the care of patients, despite its critical importance for infection control, according to new research being presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in Amsterdam, Netherlands (13-16 April).

15 Apr 2019

Arc Bio launches unique NGS-based metagenomics platform for pathogen detection

Arc Bio today revealed the second offering in its Galileo product line: a comprehensive next-generation sequencing test for the monitoring of post-transplant patients.

12 Apr 2019

GARDP forms multi-actor partnerships to discover new antibiotics

Multi-actor partnership tests natural products and compound libraries for antibacterial activity Discovery efforts will focus on World Health Organization's priority pathogens The Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership is partnering with Calibr, the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, in particular its location Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, and the University of Queensland's Community for Open Antimicrobial Drug Discovery in its efforts to develop and ensure new antibiotics are globally available to all patients who need them.

11 Apr 2019

Key gene involved in transmission of African sleeping sickness identified

Life scientists from UCLA and the University of Bern have identified a key gene in the transmission of African sleeping sickness -- a severe disease transmitted by the bite of infected tsetse flies, which are common in sub-Saharan Africa.

10 Apr 2019

High Throughput Nucleic Acid Purification Simplified

Labs demand purity and flexibility for high throughput nucleic acid purification, while needing to complete difficult downstream analysis, for example NGS.

From Promega Corporation 9 Apr 2019

New technique to test for viral infections discovered

A team of Colorado State University researchers has developed technology that can detect extremely small amounts of antibodies in a person's blood. Antibodies develop to infect cells or kill pathogens, essentially fighting off a bacteria or virus. The levels of antibodies in the blood can tell whether that person is sick.

9 Apr 2019

UTMB receives grant to combat highly-lethal hemorrhagic fever viruses

The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Profectus Biosciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Mapp Biopharmaceutical and Genevant Sciences Corp. have been awarded up to $35 million to advance the development of rapid-acting vaccines and broad-spectrum treatments of the highly-lethal hemorrhagic fever viruses Ebola and Marburg.

9 Apr 2019

Study finds link between common virus and faster disease progression in cystic fibrosis

A new study has found that cystic fibrosis patients who have a common virus may experience faster disease progression than patients who do not have the virus. Signs of faster cystic fibrosis disease progression included earlier times to lung transplant referral and reaching the final stages of the disease.

8 Apr 2019

New HIV drug that is like a "Swiss Army knife of immunotherapies"

HIV is a tricky virus that causes a unique phenomenon where the virus hides within the immune cells of patients when they are on treatment with the antiretroviral therapy (ART) drugs. When they are off the drugs, the virus comes back.

7 Apr 2019

NYU biologists develop methods to validate gene regulatory networks

A team of biologists and computer scientists has mapped out a network of interactions for how plant genes coordinate their response to nitrogen, a crucial nutrient and the main component of fertilizer.

5 Apr 2019

UMSOM's Institute for Genome Sciences receives $17.5 million grant for infectious disease research

The Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine was awarded $17.5 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to fund the IGS Genome Center for Infectious Diseases for another five years.

5 Apr 2019

Ground-breaking research helps better understand the threat posed by antifungal drug resistance

Ground-breaking work by university experts in Tennessee, Texas and Swansea is helping develop a better understanding of the growing threat posed by antifungal drug resistance.

4 Apr 2019

NIAID awards $22 million grant to develop antibody-based therapies against lethal viruses

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded an international consortium led by Albert Einstein College of Medicine, part of Montefiore, a five-year, $22 million grant to develop antibody-based therapies against four highly lethal viruses for which there are no approved vaccines or treatments.

4 Apr 2019

Patent-pending probiotic could help patients with gastrointestinal diseases avoid harmful biofilms

Probiotics typically aim to rebalance bacteria populations in the gut, but new research suggests they may also help break apart stubborn biofilms. Biofilms are living microbial communities--they provide a haven for microbes and are often resistant to antibiotics.

4 Apr 2019

New all-in-one immunotherapy approach kicks out hiding HIV and also kills it

In a first on the quest to cure HIV, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health scientists report today in EBioMedicine that they've developed an all-in-one immunotherapy approach that not only kicks HIV out of hiding in the immune system, but also kills it.

4 Apr 2019

Dogs with hypothyroidism or that take omega-3 fatty acid may have lower risk of T-zone lymphoma

Dogs that receive omega-3 fatty acid supplements or have hypothyroidism may be less likely to develop T-zone lymphoma.

4 Apr 2019

MUSC study provides evidence for link between 'leaky gut' and autoantibody production in HIV-positive patients

Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, attacks the immune system, making affected individuals more susceptible to infections. When patients with HIV are treated with antiretroviral therapy, their immune system can recover, but some of them produce self-destructive proteins, or autoantibodies.

2 Apr 2019

Study reveals new strategy to combat antibiotic resistance

A new strategy to combat antibiotic resistance has emerged from a study led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine. Published in the journal Molecular Cell, the report reveals for the first time how bacteria evolve mutations that confer antibiotic resistance and that this process can be inhibited with FDA-approved drug edaravone.

2 Apr 2019

Cancer prevention drug also reduces virulence of H. pylori bacterium

A medicine currently being tested as a chemoprevention agent for multiple types of cancer has more than one trick in its bag when it comes to preventing stomach cancer, Vanderbilt researchers have discovered.

29 Mar 2019

Microbiology News and Research

Research highlights the importance of seeking prompt medical advice following rabies exposure

Low hand hygiene compliance found among healthcare workers on ICUs

Arc Bio launches unique NGS-based metagenomics platform for pathogen detection

GARDP forms multi-actor partnerships to discover new antibiotics

Key gene involved in transmission of African sleeping sickness identified

High Throughput Nucleic Acid Purification Simplified

New technique to test for viral infections discovered

UTMB receives grant to combat highly-lethal hemorrhagic fever viruses

Study finds link between common virus and faster disease progression in cystic fibrosis

New HIV drug that is like a "Swiss Army knife of immunotherapies"

NYU biologists develop methods to validate gene regulatory networks

UMSOM's Institute for Genome Sciences receives $17.5 million grant for infectious disease research

Ground-breaking research helps better understand the threat posed by antifungal drug resistance

NIAID awards $22 million grant to develop antibody-based therapies against lethal viruses

Patent-pending probiotic could help patients with gastrointestinal diseases avoid harmful biofilms

New all-in-one immunotherapy approach kicks out hiding HIV and also kills it

Dogs with hypothyroidism or that take omega-3 fatty acid may have lower risk of T-zone lymphoma

MUSC study provides evidence for link between 'leaky gut' and autoantibody production in HIV-positive patients

Study reveals new strategy to combat antibiotic resistance

Cancer prevention drug also reduces virulence of H. pylori bacterium

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