Sentences with phrase «for cholera»

The finding has implications for cholera vaccines.

Her team is also planning to develop a similar biosensor that can detect bacterial pathogens, including microbes responsible for cholera and the devastating citrus greening disease threatening Florida's orange orchards.

Seven of the early patients tested positive for cholera at the local hospital, but this wasn't cholera.

The usual treatment for cholera comes in the form of «oral rehydration therapy» packs.

Also in India, a decoction of chile pods with opium and asafoetida was used as a cure for cholera, and tincture of Capsicum was used against malarial fevers, although we found no connection with quinine with that usage.

«Plans for a cholera vaccination campaign planned in Yemen have been suspended based on a decision of the government,» Tarik Jašarević, a World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson in Geneva, Switzerland, wrote to ScienceInsider in an emailed statement, adding that the decision was made in consultation with Yemeni government partners, including WHO, which advises the Ministry of Health.

This has significant implications for cholera control efforts world - wide.

Unfortunately, the water's temperature and salinity provide a perfect incubator for cholera bacteria, and a disease never recorded before in Haiti has now attacked 700,000 people and killed 8500.

Moreover, there was ample opportunity for cholera microbes to enter the Meye Tributary System of the Artibonite River in and around the Nepalese camp.

The company also has vaccines in clinical development for cholera (Vaxchora), anthrax, HIV and hepatitis A.

The government of Yemen has suspended a request for cholera vaccine to fight the deadly outbreak that since 27 April has infected a reported 320,199 Yemenis and killed 1742.

He and colleagues have determined what gives cholera bacteria their curved shape and whether it matters (a polymer protein, and it does matter; the curve makes it easier for cholera to cause disease), how different wavelengths of light affect movement of photosynthetic bacteria (red and green wavelengths encourage movement; blue light stops the microbes in their tracks), how bacteria coordinate cell division machinery and how photosynthetic bacteria's growth changes in light and dark.

This mechanism halts the delivery of the «glue» for key cell sheets — blood vessels for anthrax and intestinal lining for cholera — which results in blood loss - induced shock (anthrax) and acute diarrhea (cholera).

PAHO, along with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and UNICEF, recently joined forces with the governments of Haiti and the Dominican Republic to develop a national plan for cholera elimination.

«Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium responsible for cholera, may have been dormant in water until weather - related conditions caused it to multiply enough to constitute an infective dose if ingested by humans,» said David Sack, a cholera specialist at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States.

He suggests that «the law firm equivalent of spreading the cure for cholera is getting lawyers to accept change and new procedures within the organization.»

The same vaccine for cholera is also effective against ETEC, and certain vaccines are available for children as young as two.

They also hope to tweak the synthetic system so that it can sense and respond to signaling molecules released by other species of pathogenic bacteria, such as those responsible for cholera.