Hospitals are meant to be places of healing, but patients often pick up new infections there that are potentially dangerous and hard to treat. A new, experimental vaccine given on arrival to hospital could help prevent infections from a range of drug-resistant bacteria and fungi, by activating a different arm of the immune system. With […]
By SARAH CHAPMAN Take-home points Acute middle ear infections, also called acute otitis media, are common in children and can cause earache, fever and occasionally a perforated ear drum (a hole or tear in your eardrum). These infections happen when bacteria from the upper part of the throat go to the middle ear. NHS advice is that […]
A new study has found that people with non-COVID respiratory infections such as colds, flu, and pneumonia can suffer from ‘long’ symptoms that persist well beyond the acute infection stage. The findings increase awareness about the existence of long-lasting respiratory infections other than long COVID. We’ve all heard of long COVID, where the signs and […]
October 09, 2023 2 min read Source/Disclosures Published by: Disclosures: Diekema reports receiving grant funding from bioMerieux, Inc. and consulting fees from OpGen, Inc. Please see the study for all other authors’ relevant financial disclosures. ADD TOPIC TO EMAIL ALERTS Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email address to […]
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Aeromonas hydrophila risk factors, clinical disease, and factors associated with mortality were studied in a large hospital in Saudi Arabia. This is the first study from this region about this particular species. The Pitt bacteremia score, Charlson weighted comorbidity index, INR, and the number of comorbidity factors were all found to be associated with 30-day […]
Abstract Antiviral signalling, which can be activated in host cells upon virus infection, restricts virus replication and communicates infection status to neighbouring cells. The antiviral response is heterogeneous, both quantitatively (efficiency of response activation) and qualitatively (transcribed antiviral gene set). To investigate the basis of this heterogeneity, we combined Virus Infection Real-time IMaging (VIRIM), a […]
