Sentences with word «haemophilus»

influenza B Haemophilus influenza Type B (THE FLU), polyribosylribitol phosphate (A FLU COMPLEX CONJUGATE - DISABLES THE FLU PHAGOCYTE), ammonium sulfate (A PURIFICATION AGENT), formalin (A FORM OF FORMALDEHYDE, USED TO DISABLE THE FLU VIRII), and sucrose (SUGAR).

The prize committee cited his «seminal research, vaccine development, policy and advocacy toward the global prevention of Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) disease, saving each year more than 370,000 children's lives.»

While studying the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, Smith discovered that it slices up DNA from invading viruses.

Takala AK, Eskola J, Palmgren J, et al. «Risk factors of invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b disease among children in Finland.

In 2002, when GAVI convinced suppliers to manufacture extra courses of an existing vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type b, poor countries were slow to buy it.

In the study, resveratrol was effective against inflammation caused by nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi), a major respiratory pathogen.

With this new approach, it took us a year to do Haemophilus, and that's just because we were working out all the methods, Venter says.

Humans are the only known hosts for Haemophilus influenzae bacteria, a family comprised of many different strains, the most well - known of which is type b, or Hib.

Although national vaccination rates for school - aged children are high — typically above 95 percent for most vaccines — rates for younger children are considerably lower, and they are particularly susceptible to diseases such as Haemophilus influenzae type b and measles.

A few other strains that can such as Neisseria meningitidis, Haemophilus inflenzae, and Listeria monocytogenes have been known to be linked to meningitis as well.

Vaccination with Haemophilus influenzae Type b prevents most cases of epiglottitis, a potentially life - threatening form of laryngitis in toddlers.

The new tetanus - based vaccine reduced Haemophilus type B antibodies in all the children, but the drop was statistically significant only in the Israelis.

After the third dose, only 83 % of the Israeli infants had Haemophilus antibody concentrations considered necessary for long - term protection.

We took millions of copies of the whole chromosome from Haemophilus, he says, and we used sound waves to break them apart into tiny pieces.

[Haemophilus influenzae is a bacterium, the first organism to have its entire genome sequenced, which Venter completed in 1995; Drosophila is the common fruit fly, whose genome Venter sequenced as a warm - up to sequencing the human genome.]

Now scientists have uncovered a clever mechanism by which Haemophilus influenzae, a bug that commonly instigates childhood sinus infections, uses the body's immune response to crush its competition.

The team went on to show that Haemophilus somehow recruited host immune cells, called neutrophils, to the site of colonization.

In mice with a lethal Haemophilus influenzae infection, the researchers found glucocorticoids upregulated IRAK - M expression by enhancing the protein NF - κB p65 and glucocorticoid receptor binding to the IRAK - M promoter.

The structure of Haemophilus influenzaeprephenate dehydrogenase suggests unique features of bifunctional TyrA enzymes.

You can read more about feline immunodeficiency virus through this link, about one of those parasites, haemobartonella (Mycoplasma haemophilus), here and the other, ehrlichia, here.

Istre GR, Conner JS, Broome CV, et al. «Risk factors for primary invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease: increased risk from day care attendance and school - aged household members.»

Led by Kevin M. Mason, PhD, and Sheryl S. Justice, PhD, principal investigators in the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, the effort is offering new information about nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI).

In 1992 Dr. Venter founded The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), a not - for - profit research institute, where in 1995 he and his team decoded the genome of the first free - living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, using his new whole - genome «shotgun» technique.

For Haemophilus, we had about 26,000 pieces, all 500 base pairs long, says Venter.

Usually, the infection is a mucus bacteria, such as haemophilus, pneumococcus, stphylococcus, or streptococcus.

Cochi SL, Fleming DW, Hightower AW, et al. «Primary invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b disease: a population - based assessment of risk factors.»

Respond better to immunizations against Polio, Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Haemophilus influenza (bacterium that can cause a severe infection)

Your baby will be getting the second dose of the 5 - in - 1 injection which protects against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough (pertussis), polio and Hib (haemophilus influenza type B).

Today, the vaccines for measles, Haemophilus influenzae (Hib), and diphtheria protect children against some of the more dangerous forms of croup.

Vaccines against Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae type b, and meningococcus have drastically reduced the frequency of bacterial meningitis and other invasive conditions due to these bacteria.

A study published in 2001 looked specifically at whether the timing of childhood vaccinations, particularly of Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b), is related to the risk of a child getting diabetes.

From some research I found, it appears that the advent of the Hib vaccine (Haemophilus influenza type B) in the early 1990's in the USA and in 2001 in Sweden (and various dates in other countries) has created high rates of peanut allergy regardless of peanut consumption.

In Canada, vaccines prevent illnesses such as diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), rotavirus, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, pneumococcal and meningococcal diseases, and human papillomavirus virus (HPV).

I'll be honest: we refused some vaccines for our oldest son, including the Hepatitis B and Haemophilus Influenza Type B shots.

Hib, or Haemophilus influenzae type b, can also cause serious joint and skin infections as well as other less common infections.

Haemophilus influenzae disease (including Hib).

Vaccine information statement: Haemophilus influenzae type b. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This month you can expect baby to get immunizations, most likely a combination diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTaP,) haemophilus influenza type b vaccine (Hib,) polio, pneumococcal conjugate (PCV,) and the rotavirus vaccine.

They should also get their second doses of rotavirus vaccine, haemophilus influenza vaccine, and pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.

They should also receive their first dose of haemophilus influenza and pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.

The latest study is the most thorough large - scale study to date of the risk of febrile seizures following inoculation with the DTaP - IPV - Hib vaccine, which protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough), as well as polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b.

A team led by Ron Dagan, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Soroka University Medical Center in Beer - Sheva, Israel, wanted to know if a new pneumococcal vaccine based on tetanus toxoid would change infants» immune responses to the standard regimen of vaccines, including those for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP), and Haemophilus influenzae type B, which protects against meningitis.