Sentences with phrase «treatments against the tuberculosis»

Current treatments against the tuberculosis - causing bacteria include prodrugs, such as ethionamide, which are activated by a bacterial enzyme.

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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.

The aim of this project is to fight against Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis)(TB) and Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), leading to serious diseases which usually require intensive care treatment with a long hospitalization.