Hopkins Nursing researcher Jason Farley, PhD, MPH, is at the forefront of HIV/AIDS research, leading several studies on how to protect infected patients from additional disease.
Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered why measles, perhaps the most contagious viral disease in the world, spreads so quickly.
A vampire-like bacteria that leeches onto specific other bacteria – including certain human pathogens – has the potential to serve as a living antibiotic for a range of infectious diseases, a new study indicates.
Antibiotics May Not Be Only Cause of Community-Acquired Clostridium difficile Infection and Nursing Home Residence May Allow for “On-Admission” Prediction Model of Disease Severity, according to the results of two separate studies released today.
Growing evidence for the effectiveness of fecal microbiota transplants as a treatment for patients with recurrent bouts of Clostridium difficile (C.difficile) associated diarrhea is presented in three studies -- including a long-term follow-up of colonoscopic fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) for recurrent C. difficile Infection that included 77 patients from five different states-- unveiled today. In a fourth study, investigators from the Centre for Digestive Diseases in Australia explored fecal bacterial transplantation as a treatment for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. While this is a new area of research, results of this study show success in treating IBD when the fecal transplant is done recurrently.
Research presented at the 2011 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.
Check into a hospital and you run the risk of infection with a methicillin-resistant strain of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. But present day MRSA might have been worse if it had descended directly from a 1950s version of the bug, according to a study co-authored by Barry N. Kreiswirth, PhD, a professor at the Public Health Research Institute of UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
JHSPH researchers developed a more accurate method to estimate vaccination coverage rates by combining administrative data with survey data.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that young boys receive the HPV vaccine starting at age 11. Loyola University Health System experts in pediatric infectious disease and adolescent medicine are available to comment.
Raman spectroscopy technique may lead to more effective treatment for patients with staph infections.
Researchers in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech have identified the first strains of hepatitis E virus from farmed rabbits in the United States. It is unknown whether the virus can spread from rabbits to humans.
A collaborative team led by Cornell University scientists will enable government agencies and food companies to pinpoint the exact nature and origin of food-borne bacteria with unprecedented accuracy.
New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that obesity may make annual flu shots less effective.
New research suggests that some patients develop a potentially deadly blood infection from their implanted cardiac devices because bacterial cells in their bodies have gene mutations that allow them to stick to the devices.
Boise State University researchers have created a new vaccine that shows high promise in preventing Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium that can cause a range of illnesses such as skin infections and pneumonia.
For newborn infants at risk of infection with group B streptococcal (GBS) bacteria, screening blood tests cause extra pain and anxiety—without increasing detection of early-onset GBS disease, reports a study in the October issue of The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
By following a few basic rules for handling central venous catheters, nurses and doctors at a group of children's hospitals have, in three years, prevented nearly a thousand infections and saved more than a hundred children's lives and millions of dollars, according to a study by investigators at Johns Hopkins Children's Center and elsewhere
Researchers at Boston University have made discoveries that provide the foundation towards novel approaches to control insects that transmit deadly diseases such as dengue fever and malaria through their study of the Wolbachia bacteria. Their findings have been published in the current issue of Science Express, an online publication of selected papers in advance of the print edition of Science, the main journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
The intestinal ecosystem is even more dynamic than previously thought, according to two studies by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers published in the latest issue of Science.
It’s a common question parents ask themselves this time of year: Does my child really need a flu shot? Though the flu may seem harmless, the truth is on average 20,000 children age 5 and younger are hospitalized due to flu symptoms each year.
In the film Contagion, a virus outbreak occurs, killing thousands of people all over the world. In the final scene we discover that the global outbreak started after a fruit bat infected a pig. Complete fiction? Actually, there may be some elements of truth to it.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill enrolled 1,600 children at the study site in Lilongwe, Malawi.
A new global atlas charts prospects for malaria elimination by offering the first full-color, detailed depiction of a disease now declining in many parts of the globe. The “Atlas of Malaria-Eliminating Countries” spotlights countries successfully moving toward eliminating the disease and provides a visual tool to help focus resources where they are needed most.
The American Academy of Pediatricians does NOT recommend staying home from school even if your child has lice. Like vampires, lice do suck the blood of humans and "come out" around Halloween but a Loyola pediatric infectious disease specialist debunks many myths about lice.
An international team—led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Tubingen in Germany—has sequenced the entire genome of the Black Death, one of the most devastating epidemics in human history.
A Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine study could lead to improved gene therapies for conditions such as heart disease and cancer as well as more effective vaccines for tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases.
A team of scientists has found that vitamin D plays an essential role in the body’s fight against infections such as tuberculosis. Researchers found that the human immune system’s ability to kill or inhibit the bacteria causing TB is dependent on having sufficient levels of Vitamin D present. The finding could lead to a new treatment pathway.
The American Thoracic Society (ATS), originally founded as the American Sanatorium Association at the turn of the twentieth century, welcomes the news that deaths worldwide from tuberculosis are falling and, with the exception of Africa, all world regions are on target to halve TB mortality by 2015.
This is the first study to demonstrate active replication of HIV virus in a cell type other than immune T cells and which may help to predict patients at greatest risk for HIV dementia.
According to a researcher at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and her colleagues in the Netherlands, earlier circumcision of males in South Africa may be a positive step in slowing the spread of both HIV and the human papillomavirus (HPV). Their commentary and data were published in a recent issue of the British medical journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
UAB antiviral researchers say six months of oral medication better treats the herpes simplex virus in newborns.
Patients with severe 2009 H1N1 influenza who developed respiratory failure and were treated with a system that adds oxygen to the patient's blood had a lower rate of in-hospital death than similar patients who did not receive this treatment, according to a study appearing in JAMA.
Summary of a study being published online October 3, 2011, in the Journal of Clinical Oncology finding that rates of oropharyngeal cancer, a type of oral cancer, have increased dramatically in the United States since 1984, with HPV-related tumors accounting for a growing majority of all new cases. These findings are based on samples collected from registries in three states.
The bacterium that causes tuberculosis has a unique molecule on its outer cell surface that blocks a key part of the body’s defense. New research suggests this represents a novel mechanism in the microbe’s evolving efforts to remain hidden from the human immune system.
Cells making slippery mucus provide a sticking point for disease-causing bacteria in the gut, according to a study published on October 3 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
Researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology have identified a previously unknown mechanism that generates protective immune memory cells to fight recurring infections at the body’s mucosal linings – which include the mouth, the intestines, the lungs and other areas. These are the main entry points for many viruses and other infectious organisms.
Most of the time, the immune system is the body’s protector. But in autoimmune diseases, the immune system does an about face, turning on the body and attacking normal cells. A major discovery by La Jolla Institute scientist Amnon Altman, Ph.D., and his colleagues, of a previously unknown molecular interaction that is essential for T lymphocyte activation, could have major implications for stopping this aberrant immune system behavior and the accompanying undesirable immune responses that cause autoimmune diseases and allergies.
Dr. William Jarvis, world-renowned MRSA expert formerly with the CDC leads an expert-studded panel for global MRSA day kickoff in Chicago
Antibiotic resistant E. Coli was much more prevalent in villages situated along roads than in rural villages located away from roads, which suggests that roads play a major role in the spread or containment of antibiotic resistant bacteria, commonly called superbugs, a new study finds.
Oct. 1 is World MRSA Day kick off event at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine with MRSA awareness founder, Jeanine Thomas, joined by former CDC physiican, Dr. William Jarvis and Dr. Jorge Parada, director of infectious disease and prevention at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine.
An analysis of the high incidence of the H1N1 swine-origin influenza virus (S-OIV) in 2009 in the Campania region of Southern Italy presents important findings that provide a “significant pattern for emerging viral agents at risk in global health approaches to early diagnosis and prompt therapy,” according to an article in the Journal of Cellular Physiology.
Pediatricians in Appalachia are less likely than doctors in other areas to encourage parents to have their children receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, according to a new study.
Despite what Hollywood would have you believe, not all epidemics involve people suffering from zombie-like symptoms--some can only be uncovered through door-to-door epidemiology and advanced mathematics. Michael Levy, PhD, assistant professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, and colleagues, are in the trenches combining tried-and-true epidemiological approaches with new statistical methods to learn more about the course of a dangerous, contagious disease epidemic.
October marks the beginning of flu season, and once again, health care professionals are exhorting people to get a flu shot. Microbiologist John Tudor, Ph.D., professor of biology at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, agrees that it’s time to roll up our sleeves and offer up our arms for the vaccination.
Researchers from UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, show, for the first time, the structure of retinoic-acid-inducible gene-I, or RIG-I. RIG-I is a human protein that detects whether the RNA comes from a virus (viral RNA) and, if so, initiates an auto-immune response. Isolating the structure of RIG-I with RNA bound is the first step in developing broad-based therapies against viral infections.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have modified HIV in a way that makes it no longer able to suppress the immune system. Their work, they say in a report published online September 19 in the journal Blood, could remove a major hurdle in HIV vaccine development and lead to new treatments.
Doctor describes simple way you can protect you and your family against colds and flu.
A compound tested by UT Southwestern Medical Center investigators destroys several viruses, including the deadly Spanish flu that killed an estimated 30 million people in the worldwide pandemic of 1918.
University of Utah researchers have discovered a new class of compounds that stick to the sugary coating of the AIDS virus and inhibit it from infecting cells – an early step toward a new treatment to prevent sexual transmission of the virus.
Researchers at Mayo Clinic are hacking the genetic code that controls the human response to disease vaccination, and they are using this new cipher to answer many of the deep-seated questions that plague vaccinology, including why patients respond so differently to identical vaccines and how to minimize the side effects to vaccination.
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