Group B Streptococcus breaches the blood-brain-barrier
Bacterial meningitis is a life-threating infection of the central nervous system. Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is the leading cause of meningitis in newborn babies and can cause severe complications in...
View ArticleBacterial communities of female genital tract have impact on inflammation,...
A team led by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard has found that the most common bacterial community in the genital tract among healthy...
View ArticleBacteria blamed in indigenous Mexican baby deaths
Bacteria—and not a contaminated vaccine as initially suspected—were to blame for the recent deaths of two Mexican babies and for sickening 29 others, according to an official investigation.
View ArticleScientists at the forefront of fighting superbugs
Researchers at Newcastle University are part of a multi-million pound flagship project looking at antimicrobial resistance and the development of new antibiotics.
View ArticleControlling typhoid bacterium key to prevent gallbladder cancer in India and...
Controlling bacterial infections responsible for typhoid fever could dramatically reduce the risk of gallbladder cancer in India and Pakistan, according to a study published by Cell Press May 28th in...
View ArticleGut bacteria cooperate when life gets tough, new study says
Researchers of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have discovered with the help of computer models how gut bacteria respond to changes in their...
View ArticleNew hope in the fight against tuberculosis
According to figures of the World Health Organization, some 8.7 million people contracted tuberculosis in 2012 and this disease is fatal for approximately 1.3 million people throughout the world each...
View ArticleCommon antibiotic may be the answer to many multidrug-resistant bacterial...
Contrary to current medical dogma, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences report that the common antibiotic...
View ArticleHelicobacter pylori causes gene activity in the gastric cells resembling the...
Around half of the global population is chronically infected with the stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori, almost 1% of whom go on to develop gastric adenocarcinoma, one of the deadliest forms of...
View ArticleImportant advance in the treatment and prevention of bacterial infection
A new technology which could increase protection against antibacterial and antifungal infection for weeks, months or years has been developed by researchers at the University of Bristol.
View Article6-year-old dies in Spain's first diphtheria case since 1987
A 6-year-old boy has died in Spain's first case of diphtheria since 1987, his hospital said Saturday.
View ArticleProtecting yourself from rare flesh-eating bacteria found on Florida's beaches
The Florida Health Department has warned residents and tourists of a rare form of flesh-eating, potentially deadly bacteria that has made its way to Florida beaches. Vibrio vulnificus has already...
View ArticleVaccines: Practices and hesitancy among general physicians in France
At population level, vaccines contribute to reducing mortality associated with infectious diseases such as measles, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B or bacterial meningitis. The community general...
View ArticleAntibiotics increase risk of hearing loss in patients with deadly bacterial...
Seeking to stem the tide of permanent hearing loss from the use of life-saving antibiotics, researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have found that patients stricken with dangerous...
View ArticleLiver plays role in pneumonia, sepsis susceptibility
New evidence highlights the importance of the liver in immunity against bacterial pneumonia. The study is the first of its kind to directly show such a link between liver-produced molecules and...
View ArticleWhat's lurking in your lungs? Surprising findings emerge from microbiome...
With every breath you take, microbes have a chance of making it into your lungs. But what happens when they get there? And why do dangerous lung infections like pneumonia happen in some people, but not...
View ArticleBacteria evolve differences within the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis
Treatments for the same opportunistic bacteria found in cystic fibrosis patients can work in one area in the lung and be less effective in others. The reason, reported August 20 in Cell Host &...
View ArticleLeptospirosis in New York City—a risk from rats to dogs and people
In New York City, leptospirosis, a bacterial disease that affects humans and animals, is most often spread to both people and dogs from rats, according to a study presented at the 2015 International...
View ArticleRespiratory infection associated with increased death after acute myocardial...
Respiratory infection is associated with a four-fold increased risk of in-hospital cardiovascular mortality after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), according to research presented at ESC Congress...
View ArticleUK rolls out world's first Meningitis B vaccination programme
Britain on Tuesday became the first country to implement a vaccination programme for all newborn babies against meningitis B, which is fatal in one in 10 cases.
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