Science news articles about 'bacterial infections'

... in 1992 by Science Magazine and studied as an important part of the immune response to bacterial infections, arginase, its counterbalance, was widely ignored by the immunology community," comments Dr ...

... optimal empirical antimicrobial therapy," the researchers wrote in their report. The link between this type of bacterial infections and heat, the study suggested, should also be considered along with ...

In the same way that winter is commonly known to be the "flu season," a new study suggests that the dog days of summer may well be the "bacterial infection" season.

A new study describes how live animal imaging allows researchers to visualize chronic bacterial infection in the bone marrow of mice.

... discovered a promising strategy for destroying the molecular scaffolding that can make Pseudomonas bacterial infections extremely difficult to treat in cystic fibrosis patients, wearers of contact ...

Researchers have discovered a promising strategy for destroying the molecular scaffolding that can make Pseudomonas bacterial infections extremely difficult to treat in cystic fibrosis patients.

... Dr. Selbach hopes that these basic research findings will help to improve the treatment of bacterial infections in the future. Instead of nonspecific antibiotic therapy, new drugs could target the ...

A vaccine that protects babies against fatal bacterial infections was introduced in Rwanda last week, its first distribution in a third world country.

... suggest that a synthetic antimicrobial peptide identified as L5 may prevent death in mice suffering from life-threatening bacterial infections, such as MRSA, by activating the host immune response. 

... a movie of bacteria infecting their living host. Whilst most studies of bacterial infection are done after the death of the infected organism, this system developed by scientists at the University of ...

... diseases disrupt the power generating machinery within cells and increase a person's susceptibility to bacterial infection, particularly in the lungs or respiratory tract. A new study published in ...

The bones of an ancient hominin may hold evidence of the earliest known bacterial infection, according to a team of international researchers who diagnosed the skeleton with a disease called ...

Lack of sanitation increase the risk of the bacterial infection Leptospirosis, a Brazilian study has found.

... , which occur in many cellular forms in Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes. The link between several viral and bacterial infections and the most significant genetic factor for AD, APOE å4, is discussed in ...

A laser-activated antimicrobial offers hope for new treatments of bacterial infections, even those that are resistant to current drugs. Research published today in the open access journal BMC ...