Infectious diseases - 36 News by National Institutes of Health

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Infectious diseases - 36 News by National Institutes of Health

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Prion disease detected soon after infection and in surprising place in mouse brains

23-Sep-2015 - Prion diseases - incurable, ultimately fatal, transmissible neurodegenerative disorders of mammals - are believed to develop undetected in the brain over several years from infectious prion protein. In a new study, National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists report they can detect infectious ...

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Scientists successfully test MERS vaccine in monkeys and camels

21-Aug-2015 - National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and colleagues report that an experimental vaccine given six weeks before exposure to Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) fully protects rhesus macaques from disease. The vaccine also generated potentially protective MERS-CoV ...

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Mechanism discovered which aids Legionella to camouflage itself in the organism

24-May-2013 - The feared Legionella pneumophila bacteria is responsible for legionellosis, an infectious disease that can lead to pneumonia. In order to infect us, this pathogen has developed a complex method enabling it to camouflage itself and go unnoticed in our cells, thus avoiding these acting against the ...

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Epistem Awarded Further Long Term Funding for NIH Biodefence Programme

05-Nov-2010 - Epistem plc announced that it has been reappointed for up to five years to provide preclinical testing services as a subcontractor to the U.S. National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Radiation/Nuclear Medical Countermeasure Product Development Support Services Contract, which has been awarded to ...

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NIH renews research program to develop medical countermeasures against radiological, nuclear threats

23-Aug-2010 - A major research effort to develop medical products to diagnose, prevent and treat the short- and long-term consequences of radiation exposure after a radiological or nuclear terrorist attack has been renewed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the ...

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Receptor variant influences dopamine response to alcohol

20-May-2010 - A genetic variant of a receptor in the brain's reward circuitry plays an important role in determining whether the neurotransmitter dopamine is released in the brain following alcohol intake, according to a study led by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism ...

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New approach to immune cell analysis seen as first step to better distinguish health and disease

11-Mar-2010 - Investigators have developed a new mathematical approach to analyze molecular data derived from complex mixtures of immune cells. This approach, when combined with well-established techniques, readily identifies changes in small samples of human whole blood, and has the potential to distinguish ...

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Studies of farm animals' infections can shed light on diarrhea in hospitals

10-Feb-2010 - Why would the National Institutes of Health (NIH) fund a veterinary epidemiologist to study the bug that is the leading cause of infectious diarrhea in human hospitals? Because Yrjo Grohn, professor of epidemiology and chair of the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences in ...

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Virus-like particle vaccine protects monkeys from chikungunya virus

02-Feb-2010 - An experimental vaccine developed using non-infectious virus-like particles (VLP) has protected macaques and mice against chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne pathogen that has infected millions of people in Africa and Asia and causes debilitating pain, researchers at the National Institutes of ...

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Blood stem-cell transplant regimen reverses sickle cell disease in adults

15-Dec-2009 - A modified blood adult stem-cell transplant regimen has effectively reversed sickle cell disease in 9 of 10 adults who had been severely affected by the disease, according to results of a National Institutes of Health study in the New England Journal of Medicine. The trial was conducted at the ...

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