Sentences with phrase «in emerging infections»

The agency plans to double the number of sites in the Emerging Infections Program — a research and surveillance network of labs, clinics, and state health departments — from 10 to 20.

Tom Solomon, director of the United Kingdom's Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging Infections based at the University of Liverpool, says he is also considering a trial of the therapy in humans.

A Case Study in Emerging Infections.

Not exact matches

Kids are more likely to pick up an infection than an adult, probably because of children's tendency to put their fingers in their mouths, and you may notice worms emerging in your family when your littlies begin day care and school.

GBS emerged as the predominant source of newborn infections in the 70s.

MRSA Action UK continues to campaign to raise awareness and to bring other infections into the forefront of the surveillance programme, to drive down the larger proportion of infections that do not appear in the statistics and to tackle the regional variations and other emerging threats in our hospitals and care facilities.

The fungal infection, which first emerged six years ago, was reported May 29 in a seventh species of North American bats — the largely cave - dwelling grays (Myotis grisecens).

«Instead, the bacterial reservoirs already in the bladder emerge out of the tissue, multiply and cause another infection.»

A recent study published in PLoS ONE, a peer - reviewed scientific journal, provides new information for public health officials on mitigating the spread of infection from emerging flu viruses.

Stephen Morse: When I suggested influenza in 1990 as a paradigm of an emerging infection, (Nobel laureate) Howard Temin, a mentor of mine, disagreed.

This work began as part of a biodefense grant from the National Institutes of Health, screening a library of 30,000 compounds for activity against the envelope of Nipah virus, an emerging infection first identified in 1999 in Malaysia.

The EID2 database used in the study was created by University researchers in the Institute of Infection and Global Health to bring a «big data» approach to emerging diseases.

Additional research is planned in part to determine if targeting metabolism might also be effective against other respiratory viruses, including emerging respiratory viruses or others like respiratory syncytial virus, which causes life - threatening infections in infants.

Among the affected microorganisms were three that commonly cause deadly hospital - acquired infections, including Staphylococcus aureus and two emerging bacterial pathogens, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and Acinetobacter baumannii, that are a growing cause of infections in hospital intensive - care units.

R5 viruses are exclusively associated with primary infection, and X4 viruses emerge in later stages of HIV diseases in half of HIV carriers.

The comeback of antibiotic - resistant infections «would dramatically alter the practice of medicine,» says microbiologist Alexander Sulakvelidze, a phage expert at the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

«However, the fact that the emerging H7N9 virus has caused infection mainly in individual human cases suggests that it has not acquired all the necessary properties for efficient transmission among humans,» notes Dr. Kuiken.

As more reports appear of a grim «post-antibiotic era» ushered in by the rise of drug - resistant bacteria, a new strategy for fighting infection is emerging that targets a patient's cells rather than those of the invading pathogens.

Gates, whose foundation focuses on global health, «asked me whether the AAV - mediated approach could be used in the context of a pandemic or emerging infection,» Wilson recalls.

And though it's not a substitute for vaccines, hand washing is critical in preventing and controlling infectious disease, writes Joel C. Gaydos of the Defense Department's Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System in a commentary accompanying the report.

And Haddow and colleagues reported in the August Emerging Infectious Diseases that four of eight macaques exposed to the virus vaginally developed infections as did seven of eight macaques that received the virus via the rectum.

Epigenetic translates to «above genetic» and is an emerging field of study that looks at how environmental factors — such as infections, pollutants, stress and, in this case, long - term exposure to drugs that block estrogen synthesis — could influence a person's DNA.

Researchers found 53 existing drugs that may keep the Ebola virus from entering human cells, a key step in the process of infection, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and published today in the Nature Press journal Emerging Microbes and Infections.

For this survey of global health, Science has joined forces with Science Translational Medicine, which examines vaccine development, strategies against emerging infections, progress in point - of - care diagnostics, and ways to promote mental health and neonatal health.

Surprisingly, they found that although the patterns of gene expression — as shown by the RNA sequencing — differed between the hepatocellular carcinomas and the liver cancers with biliary phenotype and depended on the histological type, the overall pattern of mutations in the cells was actually similar between the tumors — of either type — that had emerged in patients who had had infections with either hepatitis C or B, and were different in patients without such infections.

«C. diff infection over the last decade has emerged as a threat to patients, especially the most vulnerable and the elderly, and has increased in incidence and severity,» says Sanjay Saint, M.D., MPH, lead author of the new paper.

«Aspirin is a widely used cardiovascular preventive drug and also has an emerging role in cancer treatment and prevention,» said Valerie O'Donnell, Ph.D., Division of Infection and Immunity, Cardiff University, and the study's lead author.

This work, led by Abraham Brass, MD, PhD, assistant professor in microbiology & physiological systems, reveals new leads that may be useful for halting Zika, dengue and other emerging viral infections.

William Castell, chair of the Wellcome Trust, praised Farrar in a statement as «one of the foremost scientists of his generation, whose work — much of it funded by the Trust — has contributed to better understanding, surveillance, prevention and treatment of diseases including emerging infections, influenza, tuberculosis, typhoid and dengue.»

The Zika diagnostics project in Brazil was brought underway by the DZIF through a fast track grant procedure in order to appropriately tackle the danger of emerging infections.

The bacterial isolates came from urine samples from two patients in Atlanta - area hospitals as part of the nationwide Multi-site Gram - Negative Surveillance Initiative, part of the CDC - funded Emerging Infections Program.

«The challenge will now be to use ancient viral sequences for looking back in time, which may prove insightful for predicting the long - term consequences of newly emerging viral infections.

TB has emerged as the leading cause of death due to a single pathogen: deaths attributable to TB now exceed those due to HIV infection (1.5 million vs 1.2 million in 2014 according to WHO).

In addition, novel traveling wave modes emerge when casting their model into the geometrical context, where the infection propagation recedes or even becomes frozen, apart from the traditional forward motion.

Because zebrafish are transparent until their stripes emerge in adulthood, Oehlers could label the bacteria, immune cells, and vasculature with differently colored fluorescent tags and then follow a TB infection over time.

One such infection is West Nile virus, which is an emerging virus that is asymptomatic in 80 % of infections.1 However, the incident of severe infection is raised by 20 % in the over 60s, as discussed by Montgomery in this CEI review.

10.30 - 11.00 Stackebradt, Erko (Professor, Leibnitz Institute, DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures; Coordinator, MIRRI - Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure, Braunschweig, Germany): Scientists and (their) microbial resources: responsibilities revisited 11.00 - 11.30 Balázs, Ervin (Member of HAS, Professor, Director - general, Centre for Agricultural Reserch, Hungarian Academy of Science, Martonvárár, Hungary): Microbes serving agri - food industry 11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break 12.00 - 12.30 Nagy, Károly (Professor, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary): How science supports management of emerging infections 12.30 - 13.00 Rajnavölgyi, Éva (Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary): Human life in invisible company - The significance of preventive vaccination

Detection of Hantaviruses and Arenaviruzses in three - toed jerboas from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China — Zhiqiang Wu — Emerging Microbes & Infections

By integrating the sequence data and the associated metadata, we have established laboratory and bioinformatics - based methods that enable us to investigate scientific questions including: the tropism of ZIKV for dendritic cells and the antiviral response of the cells during infection (Bowen et al. 2017); investigating the phylogenetic diversity of strains obtained by Biodefense and Emerging Infections (BEI) Resources and distributed to virologists (manuscript in preparation); the genetic determinants of ZIKV host adaptation in C6 / 36 mosquito vs. Vero cells; and the diversity of ZIKV circulating in limited geographic regions, including Barbados, Colombia, and the state of Chiapas, Mexico.

Our results show that LCMV variants that emerge during infection in vivo play a crucial role in the suppression of virus - specific CTL responses and in the maintenance of virus persistence.

Mikulak J, Di Vito C, Zaghi E, Mavilio D. Host Immune Responses in HIV - 1 Infection: The Emerging Pathogenic Role of Siglecs and Their Clinical Correlates.

«In the initial months, we wondered if this was a weird human cancer or some unusual, bizarre emerging protozoa - amoeba - like infection,» he recalled.

«The scale of the crisis unfolding in Latin America has taken us all by surprise, and we should be prepared for further unforeseen complications of Zika virus infection to emerge in the coming weeks and months.

In this area, Sette's disease focus has shifted over the years from HIV, HBV and HCV to emerging diseases and diseases of potential biodefense concern to, most recently, diseases and pathogens relevant to worldwide global health, including dengue viruses, malaria, tuberculosis, and trypanosome infections.

Recently, in Malawi, the main geographic focus of this study (reference 1), new Salmonella foot soldiers have emerged that, instead of the normal diarrhoea, cause an invasive blood infection called a non-typhoidal Salmonella infection.

Multi-resistant infectious agents and emerging new fungal infections in immunocompromised patients are among the other new challenges.

GUEST EDITOR - SPECIAL ISSUE Chronic Inflammation and Amyloidogenesis in Alzheimer's Disease: Special issue: The Emerging Role of Infection, Guest Editors: Miklossy J, Martins RN, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 2008; 13 (4) pp. 357 - 466.

Southern Research scientists joined the front lines in the battle against HIV / AIDS in 1986, not long after the deadly viral infection emerged as a terrifying new public health threat in -LSB-...]

Continued surveillance is critical to monitor these serotypes and antibiotic resistance in order to design better infection prevention and control measures such as inclusion of emerging replacement serotypes in future conjugate vaccines.

Spironucleous salmonicida is an emerging fish pathogen commonly found in the intestinal tract of salmon that often causes severe systemic infections with gross pathological symptoms and high mortality rates.