Anti-malaria drugs were routinely administered to all patients seen at the Treatment Unit during the Ebola outbreak and had no bearing on the increased survival in Plasmodium -
infected patients in the study, the researchers say.
Not exact matches
In a
study of 1,237 hospitals and residential health care homes researchers found that 3.4 % of
patients were
infected with MRSA.
To
study the pathogenesis of HIV - induced PNS disease, Jamie Dorsey, Research Technologist, and the research team led by Dr. Mankowski developed a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-
infected macaque model that closely reflects key peripheral nervous system (PNS) alterations seen
in HIV
patients with peripheral neuropathy.
Based on promising pre-clinical
studies, therapeutic trials blocking PD - L1
in HIV -
infected patients have started.
Results presented today at The International Liver Congress ™ 2015 demonstrate that hepatitis C (HCV)-
infected genotype - 3 (GT - 3)
patients, with and without cirrhosis, receiving 24 weeks of sofosbuvir (SOF)
in combination with ribavirin (RBV) and peginterferon (PEG) achieved the highest sustained virologic response rates at 12 weeks (SVR12), observed
in a Phase 3
study, to date.
In a study published today [Jan 26, 2016] in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, the team documents a disease trajectory that started with nine positive patients and has now spread to more than 13,000 infected individuals in that countr
In a
study published today [Jan 26, 2016]
in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, the team documents a disease trajectory that started with nine positive patients and has now spread to more than 13,000 infected individuals in that countr
in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, the team documents a disease trajectory that started with nine positive
patients and has now spread to more than 13,000
infected individuals
in that countr
in that country.
In patients with Chagas disease, the odds of being
infected by the intestinal worm Strongyloides stercoralis increases by two-fold, according to a
study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).
«
Patients with Chagas disease are often
infected with an intestinal parasite: A new
study recommends implementing a combined screening programme for both infections among Latin American adults living
in Europe.»
Their approach is to combine the
study of cells isolated from TB -
infected patients with micro-engineering
in 3D
in the laboratory to investigate how TB damages the lungs.
Follow - up
studies showed that the two antibodies isolated from the Ebola
patient work by interfering with a critical step
in the process by which ebolaviruses
infect cells and then multiply inside them.
Fish has long
studied the broad antiviral properties of interferon α, and
in 2003 she used it on
patients infected with another epidemic virus, SARS; a paper she published
in The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that it appeared to help them.
Bruce Ribner, the clinician who led the Emory University Hospital team that treated
patients Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, said
in a recent interview with Scientific American that although
studies have shown Ebola
patients shed genetic material from the pathogen into their sexual fluids there is scant evidence they are often shedding viable virus that could
infect others.
«The cohort
study has found that the sofosbuvir / daclatasvir combination is associated with a high rate of SVR4
in difficult - to - treat
patients infected by genotype - 1 hepatitis C.
In HIV - infected patients undergoing antiretroviral therapy (ART), ongoing HIV replication in lymphoid tissues such as the lymph nodes helps maintain stores, or reservoirs, of the virus, a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health suggest
In HIV -
infected patients undergoing antiretroviral therapy (ART), ongoing HIV replication
in lymphoid tissues such as the lymph nodes helps maintain stores, or reservoirs, of the virus, a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health suggest
in lymphoid tissues such as the lymph nodes helps maintain stores, or reservoirs, of the virus, a new
study funded by the National Institutes of Health suggests.
A DNA
study of bacteria samples taken from
patients infected during the 2012 outbreak
in Edinburgh shows that it was caused by several subtypes of the bacteria.
«With this
study, we showed that simeprevir once a day was well - tolerated
in genotype 1
infected previous non-responders, making it a viable alternative to telaprevir for a segment of
patients with HCV.»
Results of the
study published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, show that incidents of kidney disease, stroke, and heart attack were lower in patients treated with pegylated interferon and ribavirin compared to HCV patients not treated with antivirals or diabetic patients not infected with the v
study published
in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the
Study of Liver Diseases, show that incidents of kidney disease, stroke, and heart attack were lower in patients treated with pegylated interferon and ribavirin compared to HCV patients not treated with antivirals or diabetic patients not infected with the v
Study of Liver Diseases, show that incidents of kidney disease, stroke, and heart attack were lower
in patients treated with pegylated interferon and ribavirin compared to HCV
patients not treated with antivirals or diabetic
patients not
infected with the virus.
Five who participated
in study of the genetics of deadly virus became
infected and died while caring for
patients or loved ones
In a preliminary study, HIV - infected patients with excess abdominal fat who received the growth hormone - releasing hormone analog tesamorelin for 6 months experienced modest reductions in liver fat, according to a study in the July 23/30 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on HIV / AID
In a preliminary
study, HIV -
infected patients with excess abdominal fat who received the growth hormone - releasing hormone analog tesamorelin for 6 months experienced modest reductions
in liver fat, according to a study in the July 23/30 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on HIV / AID
in liver fat, according to a
study in the July 23/30 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on HIV / AID
in the July 23/30 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on HIV / AIDS.
Consequently, WHO researchers plan to try to isolate the viral samples from the semen used
in the
study to determine if the virus is live and capable of
infecting other
patients.
This
study suggests that a major determinant of the risk for hematogenous dissemination of B. burgdorferi
in Lyme disease
patients with erythema migrans is the genetic subtype of the
infecting strain
in the skin.
Dr Olivo Miotto from the Sanger Institute and Oxford University, also a co-first author, adds: «Many malaria
patients, especially
in Africa, are continually
infected by malaria parasites, and we have created a new tool for
studying the genetic diversity within a single
patient, and compare it to the diversity
in their environment.»
However, even for type 1 —
infected patients, more than 40 % were neither spirochetemic by the culture methods used
in this
study nor had multiple erythema migrans skin lesions.
In patients with Chagas Disease, the odds of being
infected by the intestinal worm Strongyloides stercoralis increases by two-fold, according to a
study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).
Austin, TX (Scicasts)-- A new
study has revealed that certain immune cells behave differently
in HIV -
infected patients than they do
in healthy individuals.
Immune responses of
patients could point way forward for future vaccines.
In the latest
study, researchers involved with the trial at Mahidol University
in Bangkok and the U.S. Military HIV Research Program
in Washington DC assembled a team to scour the blood of trial participants for immune indicators that differed between 41 people who received the vaccine and contracted HIV and 205 participants who did not become
infected.
The team of researchers harvested hematopoietic stem cells from three macaques prior to SHIV infection of all six animals
in the
study, treated the animals with anti-retroviral therapy (ART) to reduce viral load and mimic the situation
in human HIV -
infected patients who are treated with ART, and then exposed the three monkeys from which they had collected hematopoietic stem cells to a high dose of radiation.
When other researchers
studied the virus
in patients with PML, they found a mutation
in its protein shell, the part that allows it to bind to and
infect human cells.
In one
study, 77 % of
infected patients were parasite - free after taking Oregano for six weeks.
Assessment of simple risk markers for early mortality among HIV -
infected patients in Guinea - Bissau: a cohort
study