Category Archives: Infection

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she had been advised by doctors not to go outdoors due to an infection in her leg. She said she could do so once her leg recovers. Banerjee made the comments while virtually inaugurating six Durga Puja pandals in Kolkata from her residence. She had suffered a leg […]

The Lancet and the Coalition for Preventing Pandemics at the Source yesterday announced that they have convened the new Commission on Prevention of Viral Spillover. This commission strives to mobilize decision makers to act to limit viral spillovers through research, policy, law, and practice, reducing the risk of future pandemics. The commission said viral spillovers between […]

Image of A. baumannii cells in the presence of Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus CRL 2244. Credit: Courtesy of María Soledad Ramírez Researchers at Cal State Fullerton have found a lactic <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip=" acid Any substance that when dissolved in water, gives a pH less than 7.0, or donates a hydrogen ion. ” data-gt-translate-attributes=”[{“attribute”:”data-cmtooltip”, “format”:”html”}]”>acid bacteria […]

CDI Building Exterior Healthcare On Oct 12, 2023 The Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) has formed a new institute aiming to fight infections, cancer, and inflammatory diseases by finding a better way to restore and bolster the human immune system in its responses to disease. The Institute for Immunologic Intervention (or “3i”) […]

Viral infections continue to keep a number of government and private hospitals busy in the city. While a number of hospitals are seeing several cases of respiratory illnesses, some centres are seeing an increase in dengue among children and steady numbers of chikungunya. “We continue to see cases of dengue. However, in the last 15 […]

Treatment with the combination antibiotic sulbactam-durlobactam (SUL-DUR; Xacduro; Entasis Therapeutics) resulted in lower mortality and higher clinical cure and microbiological eradication compared with colistin in individuals with hospital-acquired Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex (ABC) infections. Data from the phase 3 ATTACK clinical trial (NCT03894046) were presented at IDWeek 2023, October 11-14 in Boston, Massachusetts. SUL-DUR, which is […]

Family handout At a glance Deborah Padley was arrested and taken to Tonbridge Police Station in Kent on 23 July 2021 She was found unresponsive in a cell and pronounced dead after 17 hours in custody A coroner said she died as a consequence of serious kidney infection due to an ascending urinary tract infection […]

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) rose by 19% and survival of those events fell by about 4% during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis of emergency medical services’ responses in Seattle and King County, Washington. But acute infections of the SARS-CoV-2 virus appeared not to be […]

Many homeowners are now keeping flocks of poultry on their property. Acknowledging public interest in this type of urban farming, Janice O’Brien, DVM, MPh, DACVPM, a One Health practitioner, highlighted zoonotic diseases associated with “backyard chickens” in her recent lectures at the Fetch dvm360® veterinary conferences in Kansas City, Missouri, and Atlantic City, New Jersey.1,2 […]