Representational image (IANS) Concerns revolving around the new COVID BA.2.86 began rounds in medical bodies worldwide last week after the variant displayed a staggering number of mutations in its spike protein. The massive difference between this sub-lineage and current circulating ones had a few experts on edge, even in the absence of a significant impact […]
A viral particle (artificially coloured) of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library Prolonged exposure in close proximity to someone with COVID-19 puts people at high risk of catching the disease, even if they’ve had both the disease and vaccinations against it, a study1 shows. The study, published this month in Nature Communications, reveals […]
Abstract Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a common pathogen in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients and a major contributor to progressive lung damage. P. aeruginosa elastase (LasB), a key virulence factor, has been identified as a potential target for anti-virulence therapy. Here, we sought to differentiate the P. aeruginosa isolates from early versus established stages of infection in […]
Avoid freshwater going in your nose, says Austin Public Health By Lina Fisher, 9:50AM, Wed. Aug. 30, 2023 Lake LBJ in 2014 (credit: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith’s America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Via Wikimedia Commons.) A Travis County resident has died from an amebic […]
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NEW YORK – Bioinformatics company Genpax estimates that healthcare systems can save considerable money while preventing infection outbreaks through microbial whole-genome sequencing. In a study published earlier this month in Microbial Genetics, the London-based company calculated that implementing a WGS surveillance strategy could prevent some 74,000 infections annually in England, saving the National Health Service approximately […]
OTTAWA, Aug 29 (Reuters) – Canada has detected its first case of coronavirus infection from the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant of Omicron in a person in British Columbia who had not traveled outside the Pacific province, health officials said on Tuesday. The individual is not hospitalized, and the detection of BA.2.86 virus has not changed […]
A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mysterious symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient’s brain. Dr. Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy through a hole in the 64-year-old patient’s skull at Canberra Hospital last year when she used forceps to pull out the parasite, which measured eight centimetres. “I […]
Feeling sick? Test. Tested positive? Isolate for five days As much as we might wish it so, it is not so. COVID-19 is still here, a new variant has emerged, and with it a late-summer spike in coronavirus infections. The two-week period ending August 12 saw hospitalizations across the country rise by 24 percent, according […]
Doctors suspect the patient accidentally ingested the roundworm’s eggs while foraging for edible greens near her home. Hossain et al. / Emerging Infectious Diseases Doctors pulled a live, three-inch worm from a 64-year-old Australian woman’s brain last year, marking the first time the species has been found inside the brain of any mammal. The roundworm, […]