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NIH researcher’s Sudan virus vaccine protects macaques in challenge

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 A National Institutes of Health research group with extensive experience studying ebolavirus countermeasures has successfully developed a vaccine against Sudan virus (SUDV) based...

Marburg Virus Disease

Marburg vaccine shows promising results in first-in-human study: NIH

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A newly published paper in The Lancet shows that an experimental vaccine against Marburg virus (MARV) was safe and induced an immune response in a small, first-in-human clinical trial. The vaccine,...

Measles: Japanese researchers uncover mechanism that causes SSPE

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Researchers in Japan have uncovered the mechanism for how the measles virus can cause subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, a rare but fatal neurological disorder that...

Bangladesh researchers: Transfer of immunity against Nipah virus from mother to child confirmed for the first time

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Recently, a novel finding by icddr,b (formerly known as the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh) scientists, and partners published in the journal of...

First patient has been dosed in the PHAGE clinical trial, evaluating bacteriophage therapy in adults with cystic fibrosis who carry Pseudomonas aeruginosa in their lungs

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Adaptive Phage Therapeutics, Inc., (APT) a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing the APT phage bank, the world’s largest therapeutic phage initiative for treatment of bacterial infectious diseases,...

MRSA blood stream infections: Researchers discover mechanisms behind the virulence

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Researchers at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with researchers at New York University, have published a study in Cell Host and Microbe that sheds light on the mechanisms behind the...

Acinetobacter baumannii: Researchers find evidence pointing to an unexpected source of such bacteria– the hospitalized patients themselves

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Hospitals have strict hygiene and sanitation protocols to protect patients from bacteria that rarely sicken healthy people but can be deadly for vulnerable patients already hospitalized...

Lyme disease: Scientists are testing Raman spectroscopy as a diagnostic tool

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Research by two Texas A&M University scientists is focused on improving Lyme disease treatment outcomes by developing a test that’s both more accurate and more efficient than...

Cerebral Malaria

Malaria: Three-dose Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite (PfSPZ) vaccine shows safety, efficacy in Burkina Faso adults

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 A three-dose regimen of a whole-parasite vaccine against malaria – called Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite (PfSPZ) vaccine – demonstrated safety and efficacy when tested in adults...

Black-legged tick

Lyme disease: Novel investigative oral therapeutic trials show positive topline results

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced positive topline results from the completed Phase 1b Callisto trial and the enrollment of the first subject in the Carpo Phase 2a trial. The...