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• Sharing hospital room ups risk of infection

  
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  Washington, Jan 6 (ANI): Sharing a hospital room with another person can increase your risk of getting an infection during the stay, a new study shows.The Queen’s University study led by infectious diseases expert Dr. Dick Zoutman says the chance of acquiring serious infections like C. difficile (Clostridium ...
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• Infectious Diseases of the Fetus and the Newborn Infant by Jack S. Remington, Carol Baker, Jerome O. Klein, Christopher B. Wilson

  
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  Infectious Diseases of the Fetus and the Newborn Infant | Saunders | English | 2005-09-02 | ISBN: 0721605370 | 1328 pages | PDF | 149 MB Written and edited by the leading authorities in the field, the revised 6th edition of this authoritative reference provides the most up to date and complete guidance on infectious ...
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• Study into Rev protein which helps in the spread of the virus

  
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  ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Professor Denis Archambault of the Department of Biological Sciences of Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and doctoral student Andrea Corredor Gomez have made a major discovery in the field of molecular biology. They have unlocked some of the secrets of a viral protein, known ...
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• Outbreak Investigations Around the World: Case Studies in Infectious Disease Field Epidemiology [Book and Media Reviews]

  
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• The Fatal Strain: On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic [Book and Media Reviews]

  
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• Typhoid Fever in the United States and Antibiotic Choice--Reply [Letters]

  
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• Typhoid Fever in the United States and Antibiotic Choice [Letters]

  
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• Update: A 39-Year-Old Man With a Skin Infection [Clinical Crossroads Update]

  
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• McDonnell Foundation Announces 2009 Grants for the 21st Century Science Initiative Awards

  
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  ST. LOUIS, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Officers of the James S. McDonnell Foundation (http://www.jsmf.org) today announced more than $14 million in grants in their ongoing program,
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• TCG Lifesciences, Pfizer sign drug research deal

  
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  Kolkata, Jan 5 (IANS) Contract drug research firm TCG Lifesciences Tuesday said it has tied up with pharmaceutical major Pfizer to develop a portfolio of drug molecules.The two-and-a-half-year deal would involve Pfizer pumping in funds for the project, according to TCG managing director Swapan Bhattacharya.However, ...
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• A Single Atom Controls Motility Required For Bacterial Infection

  
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  Bacteria can swim, propelling themselves through fluids using a whip-like extension called a flaggella. They can also walk, strolling along solid surfaces using little fibrous legs called pili. It is this motility that enable some pathogenic bacteria to establish the infections - such as meningitis - that cause their ...
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• Infection after surgery leaves 7 blind in Khon Kaen

  
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  Infection after surgery leaves 7 blind in Khon KaenUp to seven patients have lost sight in one eye while two have been left completely blind after undergoing cataract surgery at the Khon Kaen Hospital. Some 25 patients underwent cataract surgery in the hospital between December 14 and 16.Soon after the surgery was ...
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• Cancer Plague Decimating Tasmanian Devils May’ve Come From One Animal

  
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  The mysterious and deadly facial cancer that has sent populations of Tasmanian devils crashing now has a known source, according to findings published last week in the journal Science . The ailment originated in nerve cells of the devils themselves. A genetic analysis of tumors from Tasmanian devils widely ...
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• Deadly animal diseases poised to infect humans

  
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  Jeremy Laurance in the Independent (UK) summarizes some recent work on zoonotic diseases : The world is facing a growing threat from new diseases that are jumping the human-animal species barrier as a result of environmental disruption, global warming and the progressive urbanisation of the planet, scientists have ...
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• Survival of Children with HIV in the United States Has Improved Dramatically Since 1990s

  
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  The death rates of children with HIV have decreased ninefold since doctors started prescribing cocktails of antiretroviral drugs in the mid-1990s, concludes a large-scale study of the long-term...
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• Scientists develop cheap, rapid test to tackle bug deadlier than MRSA

  
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  • Rival £25 kit copies DNA, but reliability is in doubt • Hospitals spending small fortune testing patients Scientists believe they may have made a big advance in tackling a virulent bug that kills more people than the feared MRSA bug. Clostridium difficile is the underlying cause of more than 40% of the near ...
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• Prion evolution takes lessons on diversification from viruses

  
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  When prions are transferred from one species to another--like from sheep and cows to mice in the laboratory or to humans in the case of the fatally neurodegenerative variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease--new forms of the infectious proteins can emerge over time that make them deadly to the new host. A new study ...
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• HHS Secretary Sebelius Unveils New H1N1 Advertisement That Will Air During New Year’s College Football Bowl Games

  
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  WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced a new H1N1 flu vaccination advertisement that will air during four College Foot
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• HHS Secretary Sebelius Unveils New H1N1 Advertisement That Will Air During New Year’s College Football Bowl Games

  
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  WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced a new H1N1 flu vaccination advertisement that will air during four College Foot
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• HHS Secretary Sebelius Unveils New H1N1 Advertisement That Will Air During New Year’s College Football Bowl Games

  
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  WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced a new H1N1 flu vaccination advertisement that will air during four College Foot
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