How do gut microbes affect norovirus? It depends
Gut microbes can tamp down or boost the severity of norovirus infection, depending on where along the intestine the virus takes hold.
Julia Evangelou Strait-WUSTL | Dec. 4, 2019 | futurity~5 mins
Tags: health-and-medicine gut-bacteria immune-systems infections viruses
Common cold virus sneaks in to infect placenta
The placenta acts as a gatekeeper during pregnancy, but a study that shows how RSV can infect the fetus suggests it's not as impenetrable as once thought.
Keith Brannon-Tulane | Dec. 3, 2019 | futurity~2 mins
Tags: health-and-medicine infections pathogens placenta pregnancy rsv
Best defense against MRSA at home: Wash your hands
Drug-resistant MRSA easily spreads at home but the best protection is pretty simple: Wash your hands.
Kristina Sauerwein-Washington University | Dec. 2, 2019 | futurity~7 mins
Tags: featured health-and-medicine childrens-health families infections mrsa pets
Proton pump inhibitors for babies up infection risk
New research on proton pump inhibitors for babies finds that "being exposed to these drug levels actually puts the child at risk for having an extra infection event."
Vanderbilt U. | Nov. 7, 2019 | futurity~4 mins
Tags: health-and-medicine acid-reflux babies childrens-health infections medications metabolism side-effects
1 protein may shield women from herpes ‘neuroinvasion’
A protein called IL-36g could keep the herpes virus from spreading to the nervous system in women, researchers have discovered.
U. Arizona | Nov. 5, 2019 | futurity~4 mins
Tags: health-and-medicine herpes immune-systems infections proteins sexually-transmitted-diseases viruses
Drones keep an eye on tropical disease hotspots
To track schistosomiasis, researchers used to count snails—home to the worms that cause the disease. Drones might offer a better way.
Michelle Ma-Washington | Oct. 31, 2019 | futurity~8 mins
Tags: featured health-and-medicine infections parasites schistosomiasis snails water
Infections during pregnancy may hamper fetal brain development
Infections during pregnancy are a risk factor for offspring developing disorders like schizophrenia and autism. Now researchers have figured out why.
Mathias Traczyk-Copenhagen | Oct. 31, 2019 | futurity~4 mins
Tags: health-and-medicine uncategorized brains infections neurodevelopment neurons pregnancy
Most positive TB infection tests won’t lead to disease
Tuberculosis infection is "rarely life-long and in 90% or more of infected people, there is no possibility of TB development..."
John Infanti-Penn | Oct. 28, 2019 | futurity~4 mins
Tags: health-and-medicine immune-systems infections lungs tuberculosis
Many older adults return to the hospital with same infection
"We found that as many as 5% of patients leaving the hospital with an infection have a readmission for that preexisting infection—that's bad."
Laura Bailey-Michigan | Oct. 24, 2019 | futurity~4 mins
Tags: health-and-medicine hospitals infections older-adults
‘Vaccine’ shields tomato plants from pathogen invaders
A natural chemical may offer a way to vaccinate tomato plants and boost defenses against a pest that makes their leaves shrivel up and die.
Tom Abate-Stanford | Oct. 23, 2019 | futurity~6 mins
Tags: science-and-technology food infections pathogens plants vaccines
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