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While RSV can become severe for any child, it poses a particularly serious threat for the youngest babies and for high-risk children.
The US currently has only one antibiotic available to treat gonorrhea – and it’s becoming less effective.
Coinfections with bacteria can make viral infections even deadlier. Researchers have identified a protein in immune cells that may play a role in fighting both types of pathogens.
With mask-wearing and kids out of school last winter, viral upper respiratory infections decreased. However, clinicians have seen a return of respiratory viruses this summer and ear infections are up too.
With nurse prescribing expanding globally, it’s important they are properly guided and supported when it comes to antibiotics and managing patient expectations.
Observing the progression of an infection in real-time allows us to better understand how antibiotic resistance develops.
Resistant bacteria aren’t the only risk posed by overprescribing antibiotics. A more immediate risk is side-effects and reactions, which a new review shows are surprisingly frequent and often severe.
Antimicrobial resistance is a public health and economic disaster waiting to happen. If we do not address this threat, by 2050 more people will die from drug-resistant infections than from cancer.
Scientists have developed a new coating for urinary catheters, making them more comfortable and safer to use.
Coronavirus can cause lung damage, pneumonia and multi-organ failure, or sepsis, among other things.
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. But could they be key in solving the antibiotic resistance epidemic?
Tick-borne diseases are becoming more common in the United States. A public health entomologist outlines some of the lesser-known threats ticks pose to human health.
The bacteria that causes melioidosis usually lives 30cm underground in clay soil but is dredged to the surface during heavy rains and floods, and can enter the body through small breaks in the skin.
It’s hard to predict how long it will take to feel better after you start taking antibiotics. But if you start feeling worse one to two days after starting the therapy, you must see your doctor.
E. coli bacteria are the frequent culprits behind outbreaks of food-borne illnesses. But not all strains are harmful; some are even helpful.
Two people have died after eating rockmelon contaminated with listeria. A total of ten cases have been confirmed in NSW, Queensland and Victoria between Jan 17 and Feb 9, and more are expected.
Ants produce their own antimicrobial chemicals to fight bacteria.
Researchers are using epigenetics to find ways to ‘turn off’ bacteria’s ability to cause infections.
While school sores – or impetigo – is a treatable condition, if left untreated it can lead to much more serious illness such as kidney and heart disease.
Principales colaboradores
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Prof. Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
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(Formerly) Senior Research Specialist, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Monash University
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Associate Professor and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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Reader, Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Bath
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Research Assistant Professor of Immunology, Tufts University
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Conjoint associate professor, University of Newcastle
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Microbiology, UCL
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Professor of Pharmacy, University of Tasmania
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Director at the Methodist Hospital Research Institute
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Professor of Microbial Genetics, University of Leicester
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Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Physician, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin
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Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham
