News tagged with meningitidis
Meningitis bacteria dress up as human cells to evade our immune system
Feb 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The way in which bacteria that cause bacterial meningitis mimic human cells to evade the body's innate immune system has been revealed by researchers at the University of Oxford and Imperial ...
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FDA expands meningitis vaccine age range
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Oct 18, 2007 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded the approved age range for Menactra, a bacterial meningitis vaccine.
Breakthrough in the treatment of bacterial meningitis
May 13, 2009 |
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It can take just hours after the symptoms appear for someone to die from bacterial meningitis. Now, after years of research, experts at The University of Nottingham have finally discovered how the deadly meningococcal bacteria ...
Fractional dose of scarce meningitis vaccine may be effective in outbreak control
Dec 02, 2008 |
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A partial dose of a commonly used vaccine against meningitis may be as effective as a full dose, according to new research published December 2 in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Fractional dosing ...
Evolution of typhoid bacteria
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Nov 24, 2006 |
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In a study published in the latest issue of Science (24 November, 2006), an international consortium from the Max-Planck Society, Wellcome Trust Institutes in Britain and Vietnam, and the Institut Pasteur in Fra ...
Researchers Find How Some Antibiotics Kill Bacteria
Aug 12, 2005 |
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Researchers have uncovered how members of one family of antibiotics kill bacteria that make people sick.
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