Sentences with phrase «of emerging infections»

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

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.

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

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.

Staphylococcus epidermidis is increasingly emerging as a cause of multi-resistant hospital - acquired infections.

They emerge from UJI's current line of reasearch into such enzyme - inhibiting structures, looking for ways to both mitigate the typical side - effects of current treatment approaches and shift even the most resistant tropical infections.

When the body fails to restock, life - threatening forms of anemia, lethal infections or serious bleeding disorders can emerge.

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.»

High levels of a protein called C - reactive protein (CRP), which has been linked to inflammation and infection, emerged from an analysis of more than 100 proteins as being strongly linked to delirium.

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.

But much of the United States, including the Southeast, has been left out of the equation, despite emerging evidence that Lyme or a Lyme - like infection may be present there as well.

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.

What emerged from their work was the finding that the girl had inherited two differently mutated copies of the gene IRF7, which encodes a protein that amplifies the production of interferon, a critical part of the body's response to viral infections.

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.

«Strengthened infection control practices and having a powerful active surveillance program for acute respiratory illnesses are key to the rapid and prompt response for emerging respiratory infections,» cautions lead author I.S. Al - Abaidani, MD, Department of Communicable Disease, Ministry of Health, Oman.

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.

Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses (RIZ), University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany.

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.

«Being able to track the duration of fevers and the return of fevers could help us learn more about an influenza season as it is emerging and possibly provide information about other infections, including new emerging infectious diseases,» Polgreen says.

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.

«The results of our current study support the report on emerging roles of tRFs to viral infections,» the researchers say.

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.

The threads collected data on tissue health (e.g. pressure, stress, strain and temperature), pH and glucose levels that can be used to determine such things as how a wound is healing, whether infection is emerging, or whether the body's chemistry is out of balance.

Although there are animal models of TB infection, results can be slow to emerge and also can be costly.

An emerging controller of the cholinergic effect of inflammation is micro-RNA-132 (5), whose involvement with post-stroke recovery awaits further studies and might open new venues for more rigorous assessment of the post-stroke risk of survival and systematic infection and the identification of conceptually novel targets for therapeutic interference.

«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.

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.

«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.

The UIC Epicenter for Prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections will study how healthcare workers can care for patients with emerging infectious diseases without putting themselves at risk.

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 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.

Through this research, a rough account is emerging of how HERV - W could trigger diseases like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and MS.. Although the body works hard to keep its ERVs under tight control, infections around the time of birth destabilize this tense standoff.

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).

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.

A specific focus of WBVR is research on infection biology, immunology and vaccinology of relevant veterinary and human, current and emerging infectious diseases.

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

Additional uses include precise diagnosis of microbial infection, describing transmission patterns, understanding the genomics of emerging drug resistance and identifying targets for new therapeutics and vaccines.

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.