Bacterial Infection

Sepsis Diagnostics Market worth 564.1 Million USD by 2021 (Markets and Markets Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Sep 2016

... Pathogen (Bacterial & Fungal) - Global Forecast to 2021' ... The sepsis diagnostics market on the basis of pathogen is segmented into bacterial sepsis, fungal sepsis, and other infectious pathogens (viral and parasitic infection). The bacterial sepsis segment is expected to account for a larger share (85.7%) of the sepsis diagnostics market in 2016....

Delivering beneficial bacteria to the GI tract (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Sep 2016

Looking toward that future, a team of MIT scientists has developed a strategy for delivering large numbers of beneficial bacterial to the human gut ... The MIT team decided to try coating bacterial cells with thin layers of polysaccharides, or sugars ... This results in a very thin, gel-like coating that individually encapsulates each bacterial cell....

13-year-old dies of dengue-malaria

Edit The Times of India 14 Sep 2016

A 13-year-old boy, Pravin, from Gulbai Tekra died at a city hospital as he suffered concurrent infections of dengue and malaria. Mosquito bites have gone deadlier this season with many city hospitals reporting concurrent infections ... Though Pravin died on Saturday, it took the municipal authorities two days to decipher the primary infection in the boy at the VS Hospital....

Utah case suggests Zika virus can infect through bodily fluids

Edit Arkansas Online 14 Sep 2016

Until now, scientists have said that Zika is spread primarily through the bite of an infected mosquito ... But information released Tuesday by federal and state health officials suggest that contact with bodily fluids, such as tears, discharge from infected eyes, saliva, stomach contents, urine or stool could have been how a Utah man became infected after caring for his elderly father....

BD Expands Portfolio of Reproductive and Sexually Transmitted Infections Solutions (BD - Becton, Dickinson and Company)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Sep 2016

CT, GC and TV are among the most prevalent sexually transmitted infections (STIs).Reports from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate 2.86 million new chlamydial infections and 820,000 gonorrheal infections each year. Trichomoniasis, a much neglected STI until recently, is the most prevalent non-viral sexually transmitted infection in the United States, affecting an estimated 3.7 million people....

India declares itself free from bird flu

Edit The Times of India 14 Sep 2016

... up infected premises ... In a letter to the state chief secretaries, the Center has emphasized the need for continued surveillance especially in the vulnerable areas bordering infected countries and in areas visited by migratory birds....

Foot-and-mouth disease spell doom for cattle in Pali

Edit The Times of India 14 Sep 2016

The shepherds belonging to the Rebari community of Kothar Panchayat in Pali district are in low spirits after a harsh infection killed their livestock, battering a trade to the area's already fragile economy ... "The animals have been afflicted by this infection for the past 10 days ... However, taking precautionary measures, farmers are being advised to separate infected cattle from other animals so that the infection doesn't spread."...

Panic contagious in Democratic ranks

Edit The Washington Times 14 Sep 2016

Hillary Clinton's pneumonia, being of the bacterial and not the viral persuasion, is apparently not contagious. It's safe to shake her hand and share a cough. But the panic afflicting the Democrats is clearly contagious. Panic is Hillary's most obvious contribution to the 2016 race. She sees handwriting on the ... ....

‘The Walking Dead’ And ‘Fear The Walking Dead’: Who Did Zombie Herding Better?

Edit Inquisitr 14 Sep 2016

Episode 11 of AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead saw Madison and her daughter, Alicia, organize a zombie roundup to clear their hotel of the infected ... AMC’s ‘Fear the Walking Dead,’ Season 2, Episode 11, Madison herds the infected [Image via Richard Foreman, Jr./AMC] ... Madison and Alicia worked out pretty quickly that going room by room to kill the infected would take too long....

Comment on Latest hepatitis A food service case: Pier 38 restaurant worker by ukuleleblue

Edit Star Advertiser 14 Sep 2016

It should be disclosed whether this worker ate tainted scallops or was in close contact with someone who got infected from eating the scallops. There still is no indication of actual risk of getting infected from secondary source such as restrooms or door handles or other public areas that may be contaminated ... ....

Evolution: The Movie, courtesy of a really big Petri dish

Edit Ars Technica 14 Sep 2016

(credit. Harvard Medical School) ... Now, a research team has figured out a nice way to study founder dynamics in a bacterial culture and has consequently allowed the branching of evolutionary lineages to be watched like a movie ... Comments ....

Aviragen Therapeutics Announces Rescheduled Date and Time of Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Financial ...

Edit Stockhouse 14 Sep 2016

Aviragen Therapeutics is focused on the discovery and development of the next generation of direct-acting antivirals to treat infections that have limited therapeutic options and affect a significant number of patients globally ... vapendavir, an oral treatment for human rhinovirus upper (HRV) respiratory infections in moderate-to-severe ......

New sensor technology could speed up blood test analysis (University of York)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Sep 2016

Currently tests to detect the presence of infection or disease require a sample of blood from a patient, which is later analysed in a laboratory to detect markers of disease ... If multiple tests are required, as is the case in the suspected presence of cancer cells or resistant infection, the delivery of results can take longer and the costs of testing increases....

Pathogenic bacteria

Diseases

The Immune System Explained I – Bacteria Infection