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Caltech Wins Toilet Challenge | Caltech - 0 views

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  • Nate Scheibe on 22 May 13
     
    "According to the World Health Organization, 2.5 billion people around the globe are without access to sanitary toilets, which results in the spread of deadly diseases. Every year, 1.5 million people-mostly those under the age of five-die from diarrhea."
  • Nate Scheibe on 22 May 13
     
    This is the infrastructure side of many of the microbes (and more importantly the diseases associated with them) we learned about.
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Uptick in Whooping Cough Linked to Subpar Vaccines - ScienceNOW - 0 views

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  • vaccinemakers have introduced newer, "acellular" vaccines that consist of refined pertussis proteins that provide immunity against disease without severe side effects.
  • Children who had received only the acellular vaccine were more than 5.6 times more likely to get sick than those who received the old, whole-cell vaccine, the team will report next month in Pediatrics. Those receiving one or more of each type had an intermediate risk.
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Construction and Evaluation of a Novel Recombinant T Cell Epitope-Based Vaccine against... - 0 views

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  • No approved human vaccine exists against San Joaquin Valley fever or, for that matter, against any other fungal disease (7).
  • Retrospective evidence from patient studies suggests that people who contract an acute pulmonary or disseminated Coccidioides infection and recover develop lifelong cell-mediated immunity against recurrent coccidioidomycosis.
  • Based on this observation, together with results of protection studies with experimental animals, it has been proposed that generation of a vaccine against this respiratory mycosis is feasible.
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Resistance to last-line antibiotic makes bacteria resistant to immune system - 0 views

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  • Nate Scheibe on 21 May 13
     
    An interesting article on cross-resistance.
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Malaria and HIV Spike as Greece Cuts Healthcare Spending - Michael Scaturro - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • "After mosquito spraying programs were cut, we've seen a return of malaria, which the country has kept under control for the past four decades. New HIV infections have jumped more than 200 percent," he noted.
  • "Greece is an example of perhaps the worst case of austerity leading to public health disasters," Mr. Stuckler explained in a telephone interview.
  • HIV spiked because government needle exchange programs ran out of clean syringes for heroin addicts. By Stuckler's estimate, the average Greek junkie requires 200 clean needles in a given year. "But now they're only getting three a year each," Stuckler said.
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Frog Once Used in Pregnancy Tests Spread Deadly Fungus - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • The pathogen the frogs are spreading is a fungus called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or Bd.
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Breast Milk Ingredient Could Prevent Deadly Intestinal Problem in Preemies - 1 views

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  • TLR4 is present in higher amounts in the blood vessel lining in preemies than in full-term babies
  • those bred to lack TLR4 in their blood vessels did not develop NEC
  • They found that breast milk contains high levels of sodium nitrate, which is converted to nitrite by gut bacteria. Nitrite can be directly converted to the vasodilator nitric oxide, which can both protect the intestinal lining and improve blood flow.
  • Jenna Veldhuizen on 08 May 13
     
    another advantage of breast feeding that could possibly prevent a pretty deadly condition in premature babies
  • Nellie Bogunovic on 10 May 13
     
    Can help prevent NEC that occurs in preemies
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New Tool for Identifying Powerful HIV Antibodies - 0 views

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  • Nellie Bogunovic on 10 May 13
     
    This would give them a better idea on how to design the HIV vaccine
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Using Bacteria to Stop Malaria - 0 views

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  • Nellie Bogunovic on 10 May 13
     
    Interesting that they can interrupt transmission of malaria by this bacteria!
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Hospitals See Surge of Superbug-Fighting Products - 0 views

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  • Nellie Bogunovic on 09 May 13
     
    Reminds me of when Dr. Finnerty told us about the sinks they had at Cornell that weren't attached to the walls so bacteria wouldn't accumulate in the seam between the sink and wall!
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"Nightmare Bacteria", shrugging off antibiotics, on rise in the US - 0 views

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  • Nellie Bogunovic on 09 May 13
     
    Ultimately we will have a hard time clearing bacteria if this continues
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Drugs to Fight Deadly Superbugs in Short Supply - 0 views

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  • Jeremiah Williamson on 19 Apr 13
     
    With antibiotic resistance looming, the failure of drug companies to develop new drugs to fight gram-negative bacteria could potentially lead to millions of deaths just from a common cold or from the flu. Drug companies cannot turn out new antimicrobials fast enough, and the ones that they do get out to the public cost billions of dollars.
  • Nellie Bogunovic on 09 May 13
     
    Scary to think that we're all at risk!
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Man With Hole in Stomach Revolutionalized Medicine - 0 views

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  • Nellie Bogunovic on 09 May 13
     
    Pretty neat that his stomach acid acted as a natural disinfectant!
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CDC: Food Poisonings on the Rise, Improved Prevention Needed - 0 views

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  • Nellie Bogunovic on 09 May 13
     
    Why proper aseptic techniques are so important ;)
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