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How meningitis bacteria attack the brain
Aug 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A specific protein on the surface of a common bacterial pathogen allows the bacteria to leave the bloodstream and enter the brain, initiating the deadly infection known as meningitis. The new finding, which ...
Pediatric vaccine effectively prevents pneumococcal meningitis
Jan 14, 2009 |
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A standard pediatric vaccine used to prevent several common types of life-threatening infections also effectively reduced the rates of another disease, pneumococcal meningitis, in children and adults, according to a multi-center ...
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New research could lead to a vaccine for pneumococcus disease
Sep 22, 2008 |
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New research has shown how the immune system detects and destroys the bug, pneumococcus, which could help in the development of a new vaccine against the disease.
New insights could lead to a better pneumococcal vaccine
Sep 22, 2008 |
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Discovery of a new, previously unknown mechanism of immunity suggests that there may be a better way to protect vulnerable children and adults against Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcal) infection, say researchers at ...
Vaccinated infants well-protected against severe pneumococcal infection in Norway
Jul 09, 2008 |
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In 2006, a pneumococcal vaccine (Prevenar®) was introduced in the childhood vaccination programme in Norway. Two years later, the experiences have been published in the journal Vaccine. The results show a strong decline in ser ...
Despite vaccine, public should not get complacent about pneumococcal disease
Jun 03, 2008 |
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Although the childhood pneumococcal conjugate vaccine has been a boon in reducing the incidence invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), the public and the medical community must not get complacent, as non-vaccine strains, some ...
Scientists Create NICE Solution to Pneumonia Vaccine Testing Problems
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Medical clinics the world over could benefit from new software* created at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where a team of scientists has found a way to improve the efficiency ...
Bacterial 'sex' causes antibiotic resistance
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Some disease-causing bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics because they have peculiar sex lives, say researchers publishing new results today in the journal Science. The new study helps scientists understand how ba ...
Ashwell receptor reduces mortality during sepsis
May 18, 2008 |
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In research that solves the longest-standing mystery in glycobiology – a field that studies complex sugar chains called glycans – researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that ...
How will childhood pneumonia change if vaccine campaigns are a success?
Apr 22, 2008 |
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In developing countries, two bacteria, pneumococcus and Hib, are the dominant causes of severe pneumonia in children.
Pneumococcal disease rates down significantly post-vaccine
Mar 18, 2008 |
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Since the approval of a vaccine against pneumococcal bacteria for young children in 2000, rates of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) are down significantly in all age groups, while rates of IPD caused by non-vaccine strains ...
Bacteria co-infections common in swine flu deaths: CDC
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Many people who have died from swine flu in the United States were also infected with other bacteria, including one which can cause pneumonia or meningitis, US health officials said Wednesday.
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