News tagged with neisseria gonorrhoeae

Spanish prostitutes least likely to use condoms

May 28, 2009 | 2.8 / 5 (4) | 0

The Centre for Epidemiological Studies into Sexually-Transmitted Diseases and AIDS in Catalonia (CEEISCAT) started a pioneering study in Spain in 2005 to look into the prevalence of sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) among ...

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Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea increases from 2 percent to 28 percent

Medicine & Health / Diseases

Feb 02, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The prevalence of quinolone-resistant gonorrhea has increased rapidly in Ontario - Canada's most populous province - from a rate of 2% in 2001 to 28% in 2006, found a study published in CMAJ http://www.cmaj.ca/press/pg287.pdf. Infections in heterosexual men appear to have contribut ...

Scientists study microbe filaments' power

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Apr 18, 2008 | 4 / 5 (4) | 0

Researchers from The University of Arizona and Columbia University have discovered that tiny filaments on bacteria can bundle together and pull with forces far stronger than experts had previously thought ...

Meningitis bacteria dress up as human cells to evade our immune system

Medicine & Health / Research

Feb 18, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

(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 ...

Professor says syphilis making comeback, gonorrhea more treatment resistant

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Jul 22, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Dr. David H. Martin, Professor and Chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, updated reporters and the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases on sexually ...

FDA expands meningitis vaccine age range

Medicine & Health / Medications

Oct 18, 2007 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

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

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May 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (8) | 0

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

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Dec 02, 2008 | not rated yet | 0

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 ...

Carbohydrate-based vaccine against cancer?

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Aug 29, 2005 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

Couldn't we be immunized against cancer? This sounds like a dream, but is in fact a thoroughly realistic research goal. American researchers have now taken an important step forward in the development of a cancer vaccine. ...

Evolution of typhoid bacteria

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Nov 24, 2006 | 4.1 / 5 (20) | 0

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 ...