Banning animals from the bedroom could reduce Chagas Disease risk, say Science researchers
...s often as humans--and infected dogs are much more infectious to the bugs than infected humans. With this in mind, the mathematical model predicts that having two infected domestic dogs in an average household of five humans is probably "the worst thing householders can do" in terms of increasing the T. cruzi ......e virus to bind to many cell types, increasing its infectious nature. Scientists wondered, however, why a particular protein called CD45 was plentiful in cell membranes but ignored in HIV's robbery efforts. Looking closely at the issue, Hildreth observed that lipid rafts, subregions of a cell's membrane enriche...Researchers' mathematical model provides chagas disease insights
...humans can be. But the infected dogs are much more infectious to the bugs than the infected humans, and therefor... the possible effects of domestic animals on other infectious diseases such malaria, leishmaniasis and Japanese encephalitis virus....Across the countryside: How ecology predicts the movement of parasites and disease
...pact of community diversity on the transmission of infectious disease. The second speakers for the session, Kiho...cological Analysis and Synthesis study the role of infectious diseases on Southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis). In their presentation, Good medicine for c...Weight more closely linked to early puberty in preteen white girls than black girls
...puberty was explained by better nutrition and less infectious disease. Now we are beyond that point and have about a quarter of U.S. children who are either overweight or obese, which is definitely unhealthy."...Widespread 'superbug' is expert at acquiring drug-resistance
...dings may lead to new strategies for combating the infectious microbe One of the most widely disseminated strains of an antibiotic-resistant bacterium responsible for hundreds of infections in European hospitals can be traced back to the 1950s, according to researchers at The Rockefeller University. Using the ...NIAID awards grant to rapidly sequence the malaria mosquito genome
...s will have the complete genetic information on an infectious organism, its natural host, and the insect that transmits the disease from person to person. "This initiative will give us the pieces to an incredibly complex puzzle," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "By analyzing and comparing the genome...UCSF study finds two old drugs may help fight prion diseases
...ffective in treating mouse cells infected with the infectious protein known as the prion (PREE-on). Prions cause...ited through a genetic mutation or develop through infectious transmission. (Infection can occur from ingestion of prion-contaminated meats, contamination through...Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute find a way to block prions that cause mad cow disease
...eases like mad cow are unusual because unlike most infectious diseases, the infectious material is not a virus or bacteria but malformed prion proteinchemically the same as normal human p...Researchers make key genome public on the Internet
... also serves as a useful tool to study a number of infectious human diseases in which the inciting organism injects material into a cell. On a practical side, Agrobacterium is a basic tool for genetic engineering of foodstuffs to produce crops that are more nutritious, less allergenic and disease-, insect-, sa...New model of staph drug resistance implicates unlikely protein
...ty have established a new model to explain how the infectious "staph" bacterium evades several widely used antib... Pinho. The emergence of antibiotic resistance in infectious microbes throughout the world is a serious public health threat. According to a recent report by the...... cardiovascular (thrombosis or blood clotting) and infectious disease (hepatitis C virus infection) programs that are based on synthetic small molecule inhibitors of serine proteases. Corvas has an active medicinal chemistry based program in the design of inhibitors to urokinase plasminogen activator (u-PA). u...New killer stalks California forests
...ses (like the ones used in his study) can react to infectious diseases differently than those in a natural forest, or even in an urban setting, his research does not necessarily mean that eastern oaks will succumb to the disease in the same way that the California oaks have. Adds Rizzo, We suspect that there ar...Stigma and global health: Developing a research agenda
...relationship of stigma to global health, including infectious and non-infectious diseases and behavioral and physical conditions, rather than only one category of disease, and because many of the participants will be from the developing world, where stigmatized conditions represent an enormous burden. Discussio...Alcohol researchers show 'friendly' virus slows HIV cell growth
...a 12-year clinical study of HIV patients. Using an infectious molecular clone of GBV-C, the same team showed in ...o." The laboratory component of the study used an infectious molecular clone of GBV-C and HIV culture systems developed by Jinhua Xiang, M.D., and Sabina Wũ...2001 ICAAC postponed until December
...ram Committee had hoped to proceed with this major infectious disease meeting. However, as events continue to un...s to take this action in the best interests of our infectious disease community. The meeting has been rescheduled for December 16-19, 2001 in Chicago. For the mos...Computers to help doctors identify rare diseases
...atory blood test results. "Many diseases caused by infectious agents or parasites spread from animals to humans ...nd cats, constructing a searchable database of 223 infectious and parasitic diseases common to animals and humans. A 1997 limited laboratory trial of the progra......seful in spotting and tracking naturally-occurring infectious diseases such as West Nile virus, Dr. Cattani said. "We will be able to apply the work we do to many different kinds of public health emergencies." The center's bioterrorism-related projects will be conducted by faculty at USF, Florida Atlantic Unive......been concern that they might donate despite having infectious disease risk factors and that their blood might be less safe. As a result, FDA regulations have not promoted blood donation from hemochromatosis patients. Hemochromatosis patients in this study had no more risk of transmitting viral infections than ...... Bioterrorism, the deliberate release of toxins or infectious organisms, has been studied by national experts for years. The threat to the U.S. food supply and its underlying agricultural industry has more recently been recognized, heightened by the attacks on Sept. 11. "The efforts in bioterrorism research ar...