Medical News | Medical Articles - Infectious Diseases - Nov 29, 2018 Edition

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November 29, 2018     Infectious Diseases     The latest infectious diseases news from News Medical

Research reveals high stability of hepatitis B viruses   At room temperature, hepatitis B viruses (HBV) remain contagious for several weeks and they are even able to withstand temperatures of four degrees centigrade over the span of nine months.

Dogs trained to sniff out malaria   It is already known that dogs with their sharp noses can sniff out a host of human diseases including cancers.         Monkeys infected with Zika virus points to a sylvatic transmission cycle   Zika virus has been detected in dead monkeys found in Brazil near São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo State, and Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.

Pneumonia Diagnosis   This article describes the imaging and serological tests that are used by clinicians to diagnose pneumonia.       UC Scientist receives NIH grant for developing new malaria therapeutic strategies   A scientist at the University of California, Riverside, who researches the malaria-causing parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is the principal investigator, or PI, on two grants from the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, totaling nearly $6.6 million. Funding from each grant is for five years.       Innate Resistance to HIV through Natural Killer Cells   Natural killer (NK) cells are large granular lymphocytes. They possess natural cytotoxicity against tumor cells and virus-infected cells, and they produce cytokines.       Scientists discover biomarkers for Zika-related birth defects   Scientists at USC have discovered biomarkers for fetal birth defects in the blood of pregnant women infected with Zika.       At-risk healthcare workers being vaccinated against Ebola in Uganda   Healthcare workers in Uganda have begun vaccinating high risk health workers against the deadly viral infection Ebola this week. This is the first time that a vaccination drive has begun before the actual outbreak.       Small molecules designed to inhibit activity of enzymes in infectious diseases   A multidisciplinary study by the Computer Biochemistry Research Group of the Universitat Jaume I from Castellón, Spain, in collaboration with groups from universities from Canada and the United Kingdom, have designed small molecules that are able to bond with and inhibit the activity of enzymes in infectious diseases.       InDevR's new VaxArray to improve potency testing for measles and rubella vaccines   InDevR announced today that it will pursue proof of concept development for new VaxArray potency assays for measles and rubella vaccines sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.       All infectious diseases likely to be seasonal   Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Micaela Martinez, gathered data for 69 infectious diseases from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and peer-reviewed journal articles. She then mapped the time of year when outbreaks tended to occur, ranging from common infections to rare tropical diseases.       Mechanisms that govern HIV latency differ in the gut and blood, finds study   Mechanisms that govern HIV transcription and latency differ in the gut and blood, according to a study published November 15 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Steven Yukl of San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues.       Researchers elucidate infection process of bacterial pathogen Clostridium difficile   Scientists from the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research identified the mechanisms by which the bacterial pathogen Clostridium difficile kills intestinal epithelial cells, thus destroying the protective mucosal barrier of the intestinal tract.

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