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MRSA blood infections are less fatal in kids, but cause significant complications

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Children with bloodstream infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a common antibiotic-resistant bacteria, are less likely to die than adults with this condition and have...

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A speedy, sensitive, and low-cost detection test for Zika virus

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A fast, highly sensitive, and inexpensive new test not only detects Zika virus in mosquitoes and human bodily fluids, but can also distinguish between African and Asian strains — a result that could...

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Zika: Mild epidemic in the US could cost in the hundreds of millions

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Even a relatively mild Zika outbreak in the United States could cost more than $183 million in medical costs and productivity losses, suggests a computational analysis led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School...

Promoter similarity of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and a human surface receptor allows shared activators to co-regulate viral-host gene expression (blue and red in the cell nucleus). Viral proteins bind cell surface receptors enabling viral control of host cell migration (right side). Those same viral proteins form viral offspring which are shed from the host cell and increase infectious risk to the moving cell's environment. Image/University of Illinois

HIV: Researchers at Illinois gain insights to redirect leading cure strategy

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Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has provided the first evidence that viruses and hosts share highly similar regulatory sequences in their promoters–the initiation sequences...

An antimicrobial treatment, inspired by enzymes in our immune system, can rapidly kill drug-resistant bacteria. Image/ Lilit Tonoyan, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

Bioinspired antimicrobial treatment can rapidly kill drug-resistant bacteria

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Researchers in Ireland have developed a bioinspired antimicrobial treatment that can rapidly kill drug-resistant bacteria. The treatment consists of iodo-thiocyanate complexes, which are inspired by enzymes...

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Pregnant women unaware how Zika virus can spread, survey finds

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Pregnant women at risk of Zika virus infection may not be aware of the various ways the virus is spread or be taking the proper preventative measures. A survey conducted by researchers at The University...

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Antibiotics: Several common classes linked to increased risk of miscarriage, according to study

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Many classes of common antibiotics, such as macrolides, quinolones, tetracyclines, sulfonamides and metronidazole, were associated with an increased risk of miscarriage in early pregnancy, according to...

Bipolar staining of a plague smear prepared from lymph aspirated from an adenopathic lymph node, or bubo, of a plague patient./CDC

Yersinia pestis, the plague bacteria, can survive inside Acanthamoeba for protection

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Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, can survive within the ubiquitous soil protozoan, the amoeba, by producing proteins that protect against the latter microbe’s digestion....

Herpes simplex virus type 1 and the newborn: Why the risk of serious infection increased?

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Interferon is a crucial component of the human immune system’s response to infection by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), but how important a role it plays in determining the severity of disease...

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Zika virus can persist in CSF and lymph nodes of Rhesus monkeys: Researchers

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Zika virus can persist in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), lymph nodes and colorectal tissue of infected rhesus monkeys for weeks after the virus has been cleared from blood, urine and mucosal secretions, according...