Rockville, MD About Blog Read the latest research news on tuberculosis, including a quick new TB test, new TB treatment options, and the latest news
on tuberculosis infections.
ScienceDaily Tuberculosis Research News Rockville, MD About Blog Read the latest research news on tuberculosis, including a quick new TB test, new TB treatment options, and the latest news
on tuberculosis infections.
Not exact matches
If you get a serious
infection — chicken pox, H1N1 influenza,
tuberculosis, or a herpes
infection on the breast — you may still be able to breastfeed, but you should get specific advice from your doctor or pediatrician about whether it's healthy for both you and your baby.
Certain
infections, like HIV; untreated, active
tuberculosis (ok to pump); untreated brucellosis; active herpes lesions
on her breast (ok to pump); and mothers who are positive for the human T - cell lymphotropic virus type I or II
According to the La Leche League that a mom should be healthy, well - nourished, taking no medication, ideally she would have an infant about the same age as the one she's going to be cross-nursing, she should be screened for
tuberculosis, syphilis, hepatitis, herpes, HIV and other infectious agents, she should not smoke, drink alcohol, consume large amounts of caffeinated beverages or artificially sweetened beverages, and her own infant should already be very healthy, gaining weight
on a regular basis and free of all
infections.
We must strengthen
infection control measures, focus
on households, health centres, and communities to prevent
tuberculosis spreading from person to person, and develop more effective diagnostic tests to rapidly and accurately detect drug resistance.»
Based
on the study published, a larger randomized trial is underway in Tanzania to determine if DAR - 901 prevents the earliest stage of
infection with
tuberculosis, before symptoms are apparent.
According to Global
Tuberculosis Control 2009, released
on World TB Day (24 March), 9.27 million people developed active cases of TB that year, and 1.37 million of these people also had HIV
infections.
This information, combined with work
on contemporary
tuberculosis, highlights the significance of mixed - strain
infections, particularly when
tuberculosis is highly prevalent.
Further research
on host genomics is likely to identify genetic contributions to the phenotypic variability seen in
tuberculosis infection, and lead to improvements in the efficacy of preventive and therapeutic interventions.
Informations
on meetings related to
tuberculosis or nontuberculous mycobacterial
infections and
on our TBnet meetings are provided under this link.
Informations
on meetings related to
tuberculosis or nontuberculous mycobacterial
infections and
on our NTM - NET meetings are provided under this link.
Pharmacological Inhibition of Host Heme Oxygenase - 1 Suppresses Mycobacterium
tuberculosis Infection In Vivo by a Mechanism Dependent
on T Lymphocytes.
She is registred to the National Order of Biologists in the province of Palermo; collaboration in research project from 2012 to 2015 at the Department of Biopathology and Biotechnology, University of Palermo, focusing the study
on the identification of molecules capable to modulate intracellular metabolic pathways for the prevention and treatment of infectious, tumor and degenerative disease, in collaboration with Prof. Angela Santoni, University of Rome; collaboration in research project in 2011 at the hospital «Villa Sofia Cervello» of Palermo to study methods can cure the genetic defect that causes thalassemia through genetic engineering; she studies different mechanisms of the differentiation and the activation of human gammadelta T cells as effector cells of the immune response against cancer and infectious diseases; she investigates about the identification and development of biomarkers of resistance and susceptibility to Mycobacterium
tuberculosis infection; Valentina Orlando has published 13 papers in peer reviewed journals and 3 comunications at national and international congress.
Bacterial, fungal, viral, and parasitic
infections, including pneumocystis pneumonia, Kaposi's sarcoma (a type of cancer that causes spots
on the skin), and
tuberculosis are called opportunistic
infections.
Prof. Caccamo's research is focused
on the role of human T cell subsets in physiology and in pathology,
on the role of human T lymphocytes during M.
tuberculosis infection and
on the identification, optimization and evaluation of correlates of protection and
tuberculosis disease.