Sentences with phrase «of deadly infections»

Victims often undergo multiple surgeries involving skin grafts, facing the constant threat of deadly infections, and a lifetime of serious healthcare concerns.

«As a consequence of permafrost melting, the vectors of deadly infections of the 18th and 19th centuries may come back,» the scientists warned, «especially near the cemeteries where the victims of these infections were buried.»

«Injectable immunotherapies that use programmable biomaterials as a powerful vehicle to deliver targeted treatment and preventative care could help fight a whole range of deadly infections, including common worldwide killers like HIV and Ebola, as well as cancer,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D. who is also Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard SEAS.

In a separate effort at UPMC Mercy Hospital, rates of a deadly infection were reduced by educating patients about hand hygiene.

Scientists at the University of Birmingham have discovered a unique mechanism that drives the spread of a deadly infection.

Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, 70 million people are currently at risk of deadly infection.

Not exact matches

There was an uptick of Vibrio infections across the Southern US following Katrina, including five deadly cases — and Hotez said health officials expect we'll see much the same following Harvey.

How the healthcare and medical research industries respond to threats like the escalating occurrence of unique viral infections, deadly cancers, and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, which have vexed scientists for generations.

This is an infection that often quickly contaminates those who discover the Reformed tradition, and it can be deadly: a kind of West Nile virus.»

Donor milk provides life - saving nutrients to vulnerable newborns and reduces the rate of necrotizing enterocolitis, a deadly intestinal infection that afflicts low birth weight infants.

These include many deadly medication errors, infections caused by roach droppings from the ceiling in the operating room, inebriated clinicians, atrocious acts performed on women and their newborns without their knowledge either because of anesthesia or because baby wasn't in eye - sight of mother.

Do you know the signs and symptoms of MRSA, the dreaded and potentially deadly bacterial infection?

Milk banks are a little like blood banks in that they carefully screen donors; milk is safely processed and shipped to NICUs where it lowers the risk of infection and deadly diseases.

Ecologically sustainable bamboo forests grown for fabric production do not require the use of pesticides or anti-fungal agents, and the fabric produced from bamboo kills 99.8 percent of germs that cause the potentially deadly Staph infection, along with many other dangerous microbes, according to a study by North Carolina State University's College of Textiles.

«Babies born with low levels of protective intestinal bacteria are at an increased risk of devastating and sometimes deadly infections,» said Michael Sherman, M.D., professor emeritus in the Department of Child Health at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

The Centers for Disease Control recommends using hot water to make formula in order to avoid the risk of infection by rare but deadly bacteria called Cronobacter that has been found in powdered formula.

It comes as no surprise to MRSA Action UK that the NHS has been put on red alert following reports that 400 cases of infection by deadly superbugs involving NDM - 1 and other Carbapenem - resistant organisms involving Klebsiella pneumonia and E.coli.

But several researchers have warned that the vaccine could trigger antibodies in a naïve subject that enhance the ability of a second infection to cause severe disease, including a deadly hemorrhagic fever.

When diseases like cancer and AIDS are impacting millions of people each year and rare but deadly infections like Ebola are moving faster than treatment, the race to make effective drugs becomes a sprint.

An RNA - based drug has treated an infection of the deadly Ebola virus — the first drug to have been shown to do so in all recipients.

The deadly Escherichia coli outbreak in Germany last year, which sickened more than 4,000 people and killed more than 50, may be traceable to modern factory farming, which uses massive doses of antibiotics to curb animal infections, likely converting a normally benign microbe into an antibiotic - resistant killer.

One mystery of cystic fibrosis is why most children suffer chronic and often deadly lung infections from a bug that rarely harms healthy individuals.

Genetic mutations called «escape variants» in the deadly Ebola virus appear to block the ability of antibody - based treatments to ward off infection, according to a team of U.S. Army scientists and collaborators.

Resistance to antibiotics poses a serious and sometimes deadly challenge to the treatment of severe bacterial infections.

The 1917 virus had infection and mortality rates typical of seasonal flu, but a single mutation in the proteins affecting how the virus binds to a host cell may have led to the deadly 1918 wave, which killed more than 50 million people worldwide.

The deadliest complication of otitis media is a brain abscess, an accumulation of pus in the brain due to an infection.

Finally, Kumar adds, the case emphasizes the importance of good antibiotic stewardship, which can help prevent patients from developing sometimes deadly secondary infections like this one.

Thus far, such side effects seen in clinical trials have been minor, but it sometimes takes years of exposure to a drug before deadly infections show up, he says.

It might also let doctors save patients from the potentially deadly inflammation of sepsis, a full - body infection that kills a quarter - million Americans every year.

Many strains of bacteria are becoming resistant to even the strongest antibiotics, causing deadly infections and becoming a global health issue.

But in people with weakened immune systems, infections with carbapenem - resistant versions of these bacteria can be deadly.

Genetically engineered vaccines incorporate genetic pieces of a deadly microbe to stimulate the immune system, without the danger of infection.

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.

By increasing the pH of the stomach, PPIs also boost the risk of infection: studies published in JAMA in 2004 and 2005 reported that subjects on acid - suppressing drugs are nearly twice as likely to develop pneumonia, and nearly three times as likely to acquire a potentially deadly infection from the bacterium Clostridium difficile, as unmedicated subjects (although the overall risk is low).

«Asthma drugs could prevent prevent deadly form of pneumonia, research suggests: Early administration may block infection of important cells deep in the lungs.»

«Early diagnosis, effective therapy vital for treatment of deadly invasive aspergillosis: New guidelines focus on new treatments, early diagnosis of fungal infection.»

But a fight over ownership of flu genes is blocking the efforts to track deadly infections on the move.

Because the infection is so deadly, physicians should be aggressive in diagnosing patients suspected of having the infection, Dr. Patterson notes.

Schlievert's research has previously shown that superantigens cause the deadly effects of various staph infections, such as toxic shock syndrome, sepsis, and endocarditis.

Once the «devourer of salamanders» arrives, its epidemiological properties as a «perfect» pathogen make it a deadly enemy: Infection experiments demonstrate that salamanders are not able to build up a resistance to the pathogen.

At the University of Zurich, Rolf Kümmerli investigates new drugs to stop deadly infections.

Rates of infection with the deadly superbug Clostridium difficile were highest in the Northeast region of the country and in the spring season over the last 10 years, according to a study published in the May issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiologinfection with the deadly superbug Clostridium difficile were highest in the Northeast region of the country and in the spring season over the last 10 years, according to a study published in the May issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and EpidemiologInfection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and EpidemiologInfection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).

«Study of deadly bat disease finds surprising seasonal pattern of infections.»

Patients with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) are twice as likely to be readmitted to the hospital as patients without the deadly diarrheal infection, according to a study published in the April issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiologinfection (CDI) are twice as likely to be readmitted to the hospital as patients without the deadly diarrheal infection, according to a study published in the April issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiologinfection, according to a study published in the April issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and EpidemiologInfection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and EpidemiologInfection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).

Perhaps salmonella was simply one of multiple infections that together became deadlier and caused cocoliztli, he says.

On the safety side, the panelists delved into the possible risks of injecting genetically modified cells into patients, including the potential for deadly viral infections, brain toxicity, and, paradoxically, the growth of new tumors brought about by CAR - T cells years after treatment.

Over time, however, scientists began noticing that antibiotics can increase babies» risk of the very afflictions the drugs aim to protect against — such as fungal infections, late - onset sepsis, and a deadly intestinal disorder called necrotizing enterocolitis.

As the Ebola outbreaks rages on in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO), desperate for a way to help infected people, is reconsidering a potential Ebola treatment tried as far back as 1976, after the first documented outbreak of the deadly viral disease: using the blood of people who have recovered from an infection to treat those still fighting the virus.

Through the serendipity of science, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have discovered a potential treatment for deadly, drug - resistant bacterial infections that uses the same approach that HIV uses to infect cells.

In the U.S., growing economic inequality is driving a resurgence of deadly hepatitis, Legionnaires» and other infections.